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SIJTHOFF,  A.  W. 


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Apud   A.  W.  SIJTHOFF  Lugduni  Batavorum  (Leiden) 

prodierunt : 

Prof.  J.  van  Leeuwen  J.f.  et  Dr.  M.  B,  Mendes  da  Costa, 
Homeri   Carmina   cum   prolegomenis  et  annotatione  critica. 

Iliadis   Pars   I.    (Accedunt  tabulae  quinque).  Editio  tertia  M.     3.— 

Pars  II.  Editio  tertia »      3*~ 

Odysseae  Pars  I.  Editio  tertia „      3.— 

Pars  II.  Editio  secunda »      3'~- 

Dr.   M.   B.   Mendes   da   Costa,   Index   etymologicus  dictionis 

Homericae „     lO. — 

Prof.    J.    van    Leeuwen   J.f.,    Enchiridium   dictionis  epicae. 

Partes  II „    14-25 

Aristophanis    Vespae.    Cum   prolegomenis  et  com- 

mentariis »      5-  — 

Aristophanis    Ranae.    Cum    prolegomenis    et   com- 

mentariis w      o. — 

Aristophanis    Nubes.    Cum    prolegomenis    et    com- 

mentariis »      6.— 

Aristophanis   Equites.    Cum   prolegomenis   et   com- 

mentariis »      o.  — 

Aristophanis   Achamenses.    Cum    prolegomenis    et 

commentariis »      5*~ 

Aristophanis  Aves.  Cum  prolegomenis  et  commen- 
tariis     »      7'~ 

Aristophanis  Lysistrata.  Cum  prolegomenis  et  com- 
mentariis  n      S'~ 

Aristophanis  Thesraophoriazusae.  Cum  prolegome- 
nis et  commentariis »      5 •" 

Aristophanis  Plutus.  Cum  prolegomenis  et  com- 
mentariis       »      5  ~" 

_.  Aristophanis   Ecclesiazusae.   Cum   prolegomenis  et 

commentariis n      5*" 

^  Aristophanis  Pax.  Cum  prolegomenis  et  commentariis    „      $.— 

Prolegomena  ad  Aristophanem ^10.— 

Menandri   quatuor    fabularum    fragmenta   nuper  re- 

perta.  Cum  prolegomenis  et  commentariis.  Editio  secunda  ,  5.50 
J,  van  Leeuwen,  Carmina  Latina.  Post  mortem  poetae  coUegit 

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The  great  usefulness  of  the  reproduction  of  old  manuscripts 
for  scientific  studies  has  long  been  recognized.  As  early  as 
the  seventeenth  century  several  of  those  copies  were  made,  which 
may  be  said  to  have  been  very  important  for  that  time.  The  prin- 
cipal of  them  are  mentioned  in  the  „Listes  des  recueils  de  fac- 
similes et  des  reproductions  de  manuscrits  conserves  k  la  Biblio- 
th^que  Nationale"  by  Mr.  Omont,  collected  in  the  „Revue  des 
Biblioth^ques,  Mai— Juin  1903." 

However,  this  kind  of  copy  may  be  said  to  have  become  obso- 
lete, now  that  in  the  nineteenth  century  a  general  change  has  taken 
place  in  this  direction,  owing  to  the  invention  of  photography, 
and  in  the  first  place  by  the  mechanical  manner  of  reproduction 
by  photolithography,  photogravure,  phototypy  etc.,  which  has 
sprung   from   this   invention. 

Only  when  it  became  possible  to  make  copies  in  this  manner 
m  a  mechanical  way  directly  from  the  original  and  then  to 
multiply  them  by  printing,  could  manuscripts  be  reproduced  so 
as  to  give  a  true  picture  of  the  original,  without  any  danger 
of  errors,  or  mutilations  being  committed  by  the  hand  of  man. 
Smce  then  it  has  also  become  possible,  through  chromography 
and  through  the  remarkable  invention  of  colour-photography, 
to   reproduce   the   nicest   shades   of  the  different   colours   of  the 


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miniatures  in  the  manuscripts,  of  which  the  new  edition  of  the  Gri- 
mani-Breviarium   affords    a    briUiant    example.  ^) 

Soon  after  the  invention  of  photography  the  total  number  of 
reproduced  manuscripts  grew  very  considerable.  In  different 
countries,  principally  in  England  and  France,  reproductions  of 
manuscripts  of  very  different  value  appeared,  more  or  less  beauti- 
fully executed  In  these,  however,  nothing  like  a  general  plan 
was  to  be  perceived.  Often  chance  decreed  what  the  production 

should   be. 

But  the  right  way  had  long  been  indicated  by  no  less  a  per- 
son than  Friedrich  Ritschl.  This  genial  scholar,  in  many  ways 
in  advance  of  his  time,  had  already  shown  at  great  length  in  1840 
what  great  use  true  reproductions  can  have  and  what  ma- 
nuscripts should  thus  be  reproduced  in  the  first  place.  In  that  year 
he  discovered  a  superior  -  as  he  believed  -  and  cheap  manner 
of  reproduction  („Uckermann's  Lithography")  and  immediately 
saw  what  great  service  could  be  rendered  by  it  to  philological 
science.  The  30th.  of  September  1840  he  communicated  to  the 
„Philologenversammlung"  in  Gotha  his  plans  for  a  „codex  palaeo- 
graphicus"  and  for  „vollstandig€  Facsimilirung  ganzer  Codices" 
for   which   he   specially  assigned   four   species.   2) 

„1)  solche,   deren   Inhalt  zum  ersten  Male  bekannt   ge- 

macht  wird; 

2)  Handschriften  von  sehr  schwieriger  oder  verderbter 
Schrift  (z.   B.   die   Lexica  Sangerman.,   Schol.   Vat.   Eurip. 

u.  a.); 

3)  alle  Codices  unici,  denen  allein  wir  die  Erhaltung 
gewisser  Schriftsteller  verdanken  (wie  etwa  Hesych.,  Phot. 
Lex.,  Tacit.  Annal.  I— VI,  Fast.,  in  mehr  als  einer  Be- 
ziehung  Anthol.  Palat.); 

4)  Handschriften,  welche  immer  die  Hauptgrundlage  fiir 


»)  Bp6viaire  GPimanl  de  la  Bibliothfeque  de  S.  Marco  a  Venise.  Reproduction 
photographique  compile  6ditee  par  Sea  to  de  Vries,  Directeur  de  la  Biblio- 
thfeque  de  I'Universit^  de  Leyde,  et  S.  Morpurgo,  Directeur  de  la  Biblioth^que 
de  S.  Marco.  Leyde,  A.  W.  Sijthoff.  Livraisons  I-X,   1904  svv. 

«)  Fr.  Ritschelii  Opuscula  philol.,  vol   V  p.  579. 


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den  Text  eines  an  sich  wichtigen  Schriftstellers  bilden  und 
bleiben  werden  (z.  B.  Aesch.  Med.,  Soph.  Laur.,  Aristoph. 
Rav.,  Plant.  Palatt.,  Terent.  Bemb.  u.  s.  w.).'* 


But  a  concurrence  of  unfavourable  circumstances  prevented 
the  execution  of  Ritschl's  great  plans.  It  even  seems  that  they  were 
very  soon  forgotten.  At  any  rate  the  above-mentioned  want  of 
system  continued  to  be  felt  during  succeeding  years.  Sometimes 
one  of  the  principal  libraries  gave  a  good  example  by  making 
known  by  reproductions  one  or  more  of  its  greatest  treasures. 
Sometimes  it  was  the  owner  of  a  precious  piece  who  wished  to 
share  the  pleasure  of  his  possession  with  other  men.  Often,  too, 
it  was  the  want  to  publish  a  new  discovery  as  adequately  as 
possible,  which  caused  manuscripts,  not  so  very  important  in 
themselves,  to  have  the  honour  of  being  reproduced,  rather 
than  codices  which  had  been  famous  of  old.  Perhaps,  also, 
some  publisher  wished  to  do  something  in  the  way  of  specula- 
tion, though  as  to  this  we  should  take  great  care  not  to  be 
too  ready  with  our  beUef. 

It  became  ever  more  difficult  to  know  and  to  collect  what 
had  appeared,  principally  because  many  reproductions,  made  at 
the  expense  of  societies  or  rich  individuals,  could  be  supplied 
by  the  trade  only  with  great  difficulty  and  at  exorbitant  prices. 
It  was  impossible  for  most  public  libraries,  and  more  so  for 
private    scholars,    to   buy   any   but    the    common   ones. 

Such  was  the  state  of  affairs  when  a  particularly  practical 
and  energetic  scholar.  Dr.  O.  Hartwig  of  Halle,  made  his  voice 
heard  and  tried  to  reduce  this  confusion  to  order.  Owing  to  his  long 
experience  as  librarian  and  director  of  the  „Centralblatt  fiir  Biblio- 
thekswesen",  estabHshed  and  directed  by  himself,  he  was  spe- 
cially acquainted  with  all  the  difficulties  which  existed  in  this 
domain,  and  which,  as  it  seemed,  could  hardly  be  overcome 
unless  some  special  occasion  should  present  itself.  This  occa- 
sion he  believed  he  had  found  in  an  invitation  to  join  a  universal 
congress  of  librarians  at  Chicago,  at  the  time  of  the  universal 
exhibition   in    1893. 


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Here  he  hoped  to  find  what  was  wanted  in  Europe  —  a 
strong  organisation  and  financial  help.  The  American  libra- 
rians and  scholars,  so  he  thought,  are  becoming  ever  more 
fully  aware  of  the  necessity  of  going  to  the  fountain-head  in 
their  researches,  of  the  necessity  of  a  close  comparison  of  the 
old  manuscripts.  These  manuscripts  are  preserved  in  the  European 
collections  with  the  utmost  care.  They  cannot  be  sent  to  the  New 
World,  and  remain  inaccessible  for  the  Americans,  if  photography 
does  not  help  them  to  secure  reproductions.  Therefore  in  America 
they  are  most  interested  in  such  reproductions,  and  on  account 
of  this  it  should  be  American  money  which  could  make  it  possi- 
ble to  do  in  European  libraries  what,  generally  through  want 
of  money,  had  till  now  been  impossible,  but  yet  was  so  very  useful. 

Nobody  could  see  better  the  great  use  of  these  reproductions 
than  Dr.  Hartwig  himself,  who  has  gained  special  merits  in 
his  long  career  as  librarian  by  his  liberal  system  of  lending 
manuscripts  to  the  libraries  of  different  towns  and  countries.  In 
his  „Centrallblatt  fur  Bibliothekswesen"  he  had  often  demon- 
strated the  advantage  and  the  necessity  of  this.  But  however 
much  he  might  bring  about,  the  great  inconvenience  always,  re- 
mained that  many  manuscripts  which  are  especially  wanted  for 
purposes  of  study,  are,  for  the  very  reason  of  their  great  im- 
portance, so  exceedingly  precious,  that  even  the  most  liberal 
librarians  refuse  to  lend  them.  Therefore  such  manuscripts  had 
to  be  made  accessible  in  another  manner,  that  is  to  say,  by 
reproductions. 


There  was  an  additional  reason  for  Dr.  Hartwig's  wanting  to 
apply  to  his  American  colleagues,  of  all  others,  viz.  his  objection 
to  the  high  prices  which  often  prevented  the  purchase  of  much 
that  had  been  published  before.  By  taking  the  affair  into  his 
own  hands  and  by  the  co-operation  of  persons  interested  in  the 
matter,  he  hoped  to  effect  a  change  and  to  be  able  to  publish 
reproductions  at  a  comparatively  low  price. 

These  considerations  induceed  Dr.  Hartwig  to  apply  to  the  Con- 
gress of  Librarians  at  Chicago  (1893)  with  a  memorial  (inserted 


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he    says    among    other    things: 

,,In  our  times  the  multiplying  arts  have  made  such  progress 
that  the  duplicating  of  every  manuscript  is  made  possible,  and 
copies  can,  in  case  of  loss,  replace  originals,  as  far  as  is  necessary 
for  scientific  purposes.  Indeed,  we  often  experience  the  fact  that 
the  photographic  apparatus  sees  things  upon  manuscripts  and 
reproduces  them,  which  before  we  did  not  see  with  our  own 
eyes.  But  up  to  this  day,  comparatively  little  use  has  been  made 
of  photographic  multiplying  processes  in  reproducing  valuable 
manuscripts;  I,  at  least,  have  heard  more  of  intended  photo- 
graphic reproductions  of  manuscripts  than  I  have  ever  seen.  There 
is  no  doubt  that  in  later  years  progress  has  been  made  in  this 
direction  also,  and  numerous  photographic  copies  of  manuscripts 
have  been  taken.  But  has  this  been  done  in  the  case  of  more 
valuable  manuscripts  ?  It  is  not  my  intention  to  deny  that  it  has 
been  done  in  single  cases;  but  most  of  the  manuscripts  recently 
reproduced  by  photographic  process  belong  to  the  class  of  newly 
found,  more  or  less  complete  fragments  of  classic  and  early 
Christian  literature.  Manuscripts  which  have  been  known  for  a 
long  time,  and  which  are  the  most  important  of  all,  are  not 
among  them.  The  reasons  for  this  fact  are  apparent  enough.  Photo- 
graphic reproductions  have  been  too  expensive  until  now,  and 
the  (sale,  therefore,  small.  But  that  may  change  as  soon  as  the 
matter,  so  important  for  the  preservation  of  the  most  valuable 
existing  documents,  is  taken  in  hand  in  a  systematic  manner  and 
without  prejudice.  To  this  end  I  would  ask  your  co-operation, 
the  more  so  as  a  truly  international  enterprise  is  in  question. 

I  wish,  therefore,  to  lay  before  you  a  proposition  which,  for  the 
present,  should  be  looked  at  only  as  a  suggestion.  I  propose 
the  formation  of  an  association  for  the  gradual  photographic  multi- 
plication of  manuscripts  of  the  first  rank  in  the  world.  As  the 
seat  of  the  direction  of  this  association,  I  would  recommend  the 


^)   An   English   translation   is  to  be  found  in  The  Library  Journal  XVIII  (1893) 
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University  Library  at  Leyden,  in  order  to  exclude  all  national 
rivalry.  Mr.  W.  N.  du  Rieu,  the  director,  is  highly  respected 
as  a  librarian  and  a  scholar.  The  institution  is  famous  of  old,  and 
well  located  for  international  intercourse.  Mr.  du  Rieu  to  whom 
great  credit  is  due  also  in  the  matter  of  direct  interchange  of 
manuscripts  between  libraries,  in  a  letter  written  to  me  on  May 
16,  this  year,  has  signified  his  willingness  to  take  the  matter  into 
his  hands,  should  he  be  requested  to  do  so.  The  director  of 
the  association,  who  would  have  to  be  intrusted  especially  with 
the  management  of  the  finances,  should  be  assisted  by  an  advisory 
council,  consisting  of  the  directors  of  the  foremost  Ubraries  of 
Europe  and  the  chief  of  one  of  the  great  American  libraries. 
For  these  positions  I  would  propose  the  chief  librarians  of  Berlin, 
London.  Paris.  Vienna,  of  the  ,,Laurentiana"  of  Florence  and 
the  „Vaticana"  at  Rome.  If  the  association  would  not  be  encum- 
bered by  a  directory  of  too  many  heads,  then  I  might  recommend 
the  addition  of  the  chief  librarians  of  Munich,  Oxford,  and  St. 
Petersburg.  This  directory  would  have  the  task  of  selecting  the 
manuscripts  to  be  photographed  for  the  association  as  proposed  by 
the  managing  director,  of  obtaining  the  permission  of  the  respec- 
tive libraries  to  photograph  the  selected  manuscripts,  and  of 
determining  the  order  of  the  annual  publications.  As  the  yearly 
subscription  for  each  member  of  the  association  I  would  propose 
an  amount  of  from  100  to  150  marks  (25  to  37.50  doll.)  As 
soon  as  100  members  have  permanently  signed,  the  association  is 
to  be  considered  as  founded. 

The  publications  are  to  be  sent  out  from  Leyden;  they  should 
be  issued  in  good  and  uniform  style,  while  the  manner  of  repro- 
duction of  the  manuscripts  themselves  would  have  to  depend 
on  the  nature  of  the  latter,  and  be  left  to  the  decision  of  the 
directory.  If  a  manuscript  could  not  be  published  completely  in 
any  one  year,  it  should  be  distributed  over  several  years. 

I  do  not  care  to  enter  into  more  definite  recommendations 
at  this  time.  For  even  to  the  question,  which  is  nearest  at  hand, 
as  to  whether  my  proposition  can  be  carried  out  at  all  on  account 
of  the  cost,  I  can  only  say  that  all  my  attempts  to  arrive  at  a 
safe  result  have  been  unsuccessful.  That  we  cannot  be  surprised 


at,  since  the  prices  for  photographic  multiplication  of  manuscripts 
vary  materially  at  different  places.  But  I  think  that,  according 
to  information  received  from  an  expert  in  Germany,  no  more 
than  two  pfennige  (V2  cent)  for  a  square  centimetre  of  good  photo- 
lithographic work  need  to  be  figured,  aside  from  the  print  and 
paper.  At  the  seat  of  many  libraries  there  are  good  photographic 
establishments  which  would  attend  to  the  original  copying  cheaply, 
not  taking  state  institutions  into  consideration,  Uke  the  state  print- 
ing offices  at  Berlin  and  Vienna,  the  technical  bureau  of  the 
Italian  Military  Commandery  at  Florence,  and  perhaps  the  Im- 
primerie  Nationale  at  Paris,  which,  no  doubt,  would  come  to 
the  assistance  of  such  an  association,  the  intention  of  which 
would  not  be   to  do   business." 

TKe  success  of  Dr.  Hartwig's  memorial  did  not  answer  his  expec- 
tations. At  the  congress  it  was  simply  introduced  and  for  want 
of  time  referred  to  the  direction  of  the  American  Library  Asso- 
ciation. 1)  Therefore  it  was  not  discussed  until  the  following  year 
at  the  Conference  of  (American)  Librarians  at  Lake  Placid,  17th— 
22nd.  Sept.,  1894.  Here  it  was  recommended  by  the  president,  Mr. 
Larned,  with  the  words  (see  the  report  in  „The  Library  Journal" 
XIX,   No.   12,   P.   160): 

„It  is  estimated  that,  at  a  cost  of  100  francs  to  as 
many  libraries  as  might  reasonably  be  expected  to  take 
part  in  this  scheme,  there  can  be  an  extensive  reproduc- 
tion of  certain  rare  manuscripts.  The  feeling  of  my  trustees 
is  that  we  should  not  hesitate  for  a  moment  to  become 
subscribers  to  this,  and  for  two  reasons.  If  it  is  not 
done  now  it  will  not  be  proposed  again  for  a  long  time 
to  come.   It  might  afford  librarians  the  only  opportunity 


^)  The  Library  Journal,  XVIII,  N".  9  (1893),  Conference  of  Librarians,  Chicago, 
July  13  — aa,  1893,  p.  87:  „It  was  moved  that  M.  Hartwig's  paper  referred  by 
the  World's  Congress  of  Librarians  to  the  American  Library  Association  be  referred 
to  the  council." 


y 


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they  may  have  for  a  century,  to  get  copies  of  these  ma- 
nuscripts. In  the  second  place,  even  if  we  are  poor,  we 
ought  to  be  wiUing  to  give  at  least  20  dollars  a  year 
for  the  encouragement  of  such  a  proposition  as  this  of 
Dr.   Hartwig's." 

After  this  recommendation  they  evidently  thought  the  matter 
to  be  as  yet  unfit  for  being  decided  upon,  and  it  was  no  farther 
entered  into.  Since  then  nothing  more  was  heard  of  it,  even  after  a 
repeated  inquiry  from  the  Leyden  librarian,  Dr.  W.  N.  du  Rieu. 
He  had  already  accepted,  with  the  necessary  reservations,  the 
task  which  Dr.  Hartwig  had  allotted  to  him  and  had  applied 
himself  with  energy  to  the  further  elaboration  of  Dr.  Hartwig's 
plans.  When  he  understood  that  help  from  the  Congress  at  Chi- 
cago was  not  to  be  thought  of  for  the  moment,  he  would  not 
yet  give  up  the  blusiness  as  far  as  he  was  concerned.  Ever  acting 
in  conc-ert  with  Dr.  Hartwig  he  now  resolved  to  make  an  attempt 
at  forming  the  intended  association  of  hbrarians. 

To  this  end  he  first  applied  to  the  Dutch  Government  with 
a  request  for  its  moral,  and  also  some  moderate  finantial  support. 
This  support  was  readily  granted  him.  In  the  Budget  for  1895 
a  sum  of  money  was  set  aside  for  the  preparation  of  the  business, 
with  the   following   explanation: 

„It  is  proposed  to  form  an  international  society  for  the  auto- 
typic  reproduction  of  such  codices  as,  on  account  of  their  great 
value,  cannot  be  sent  to  a  foreign  library.  The  seat  of  this  society 
will  be  at  Leyden.  Each  library  which  is  a  member  of  this  society, 
shall  have  the  right  to  have  a  reproduced  codex  by  paying  a  yearly 
contribution  for  defraying  the  expenses.  However,  the  preparation 
of  this  matter  requires  money  for  the  payment  of  copying-fees  and 
postage,  in  view  of  which  the  Government,  believing  that  the 
establishment  of  this  society  deserves  help  from  the  State,  wishes 
to  set  aside  a  sum  of  100  fl.  for  the  year  1895." 

Mr.  du  Rieu,  being  assured  of  help  from  the  Government  and 
feeling  certain  of  the  sympathy  of  his  foreign  colleagues,  whom 
he  had  visited  or  whom  he  had  consulted  by  letter,  could 
now    develop    his  plan.   Already   in   May   1894  he   put  the   case 


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forward  in  a  long  article  printed  in  „The  Library  VII; 
63—64:  1) 

„I  have  explained  my  proposals  on  the  above  subject  in  articles 
which  have  appeared  in  the  „Centrallblatt  der  Biblio- 
thekwissenschaft"  and  in  the  „Revue  der  Biblioth^- 
ques."  Our  confrere.  Dr.  Hartwig,  of  Halle,  has  also  contributed 
a  paper  on  the  subject  to  the  American  Library  Journal. 
A  jgaper  was  read  at  the  Library  Congress  at  Chicago,  but  not 
discussed  on  the  foundation  of  an  ,, International  Society  of  Libra- 
rians," whose  object  should  be  to  reproduce  in  their 
entirety  the  most  important  manuscripts  preserved 
in  European  libraries.  It  was  suggested  that  the  seat  of  the  Society 
should  be  at  Leyden,  as  the  Leyden  Library  was  the  first  to  lend 
its  manuscripts  to  other  libraries.  This  practice  of  allowing  rare 
books  and  MSS.  to  be  sent  to  other  libraries  both  at  home  and 
abroad,  for  consultation  by  students,  although  now  in  common 
usage  on  the  Continent,  is  little  known  in  England,  although 
the  British  Museum  sometimes  acts  as  the  temporary  custodian 
of  rare  books  and  codices.  The  geographical  position  of  Holland 
also  is  peculiarly  suitable  for  such  an  international  scientific  en- 
terprise. 

It  is  proposed  to  reproduce  by  photography  the  most  remarkable 
MSS.  in  great  libraries  for  a  subscription  of  five  or  more  pounds 
yearly.  For  this  sum  it  is  hoped  to  give  each  subscribing-library 
.ever)'  year  a  copy  of  some  important  MS.,  whether  of  the  Vatican 
Library,  the  British  Museum,  or  the  Biblioth^que  Nationale.  If 
twenty  libraries  of  America,  and  ten  or  more  of  the  United  King- 
dom are  willing  to  subscribe,  and  the  Austrian  and  Italian,  the 
German,  Belgian,  Scandinavian  hbraries  will  do  the  same,  for 
ten  years,  we  could  make  200  copies.  In  this  case  a  £  5  subscrip- 
tion would  be  sufficient.  What  codices  should  be  reproduced, 
what  libraries  might  be  expected  to  subscribe,  are  points  that 
might    well    be    discussed    in   The    Library.    The   opinions   of 


^)   He  wrote  the  same  article  in  German  in  „Centralblatt  fur  Bibl.  XI  225  flf.",  in 
French  in  ,The  Revue  des  BibUotheques  V,  ao"  in  Dutch  in  The  Museum  II.  109  vv. 


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pal  Geographers  and  philologists  should  be  invited.  I  should  also 
like  to  send  out  circulars  to  invite  a  committee  consisting  of  English, 
French,  Italian,  German,  Belgian,  Russian,  American  and  Swedish 
representatives  to  come  and  meet  at  Leyden  for  the  purpose  of 
a  „Societ6  Internationale  pour  la  reproduction 
phototypique  des  Manuscrits  no  n-t  o  uri  s  t  e  s."  By 
this  term  (n  o  n-to  uri  s  t  e  s).  I  mean  the  most  precious  codices 
which   cannot   be   allowed   out   of   the   library. 

In  the  Centrallblatt  I  have  already  asked  the  opinion 
of  our  learned   confreres   on  the   following   points:   — 

(1)  Do  you  consider  it  sufficient  to  make  two  or  three  photo- 
graphic copies  of  the  best  MS.  —  a  third  being  preserved  in 
another  building  in  the  same  city  —  or  do  you  prefer  to  make 
200  copies  for  distribution  among  the  members  of  the  Society, 
whether  libraries  or  universities,  colleges  or  private  bibliophiles? 

(2)  I  should  desire  to  see  the  reproduction  made  in  the  city 
in  which  the  library  whose  codex  is  to  be  reproduced  is  situate, 
and  the  monopoly  of  the  whole  series  not  given  to  one  atelier. 

(3)  I  should  like  to  know  what  codices  should  be  reproduced 

first. 

(4)  100  marks  was  the  sum  suggested  by  Dr.  Hartwig  as  the 
annual  contribution,  150  francs  by  other  librarians.  Even  £  5 
would  be  too   small,    I   fear. 

(5)  The  library  that  gives  a  MS.  to  be  reproduced  pays  the 
usual   contribution  but   receives   two   copies   of  the   reproduction. 

(6)  Shall  we  reproduce  Greek  and  Latin  texts  only,  or  miniatures 
as  well?  Shall  we  deal  with  other  languages  and  early  printed 

books  generally? 

The  greater  the  diversity  the  greater  will  be  the  interest. 

(7)  I  -would  call  upon  all  the  members  to  subscribe  for  ten  years. 
A   few   copies   more   than   the   mumber   of   members   should   be 

printed  for  sale. 

I  should  be  glad  to  hear  the  opinion  of  the  readers  of  this 
Journal  as  soon  as  possible,  because  with  this  year  the  Palceo- 
graphical  Society  comes  to  an  end.  This  Society  has  given  very 
numerous  pages  of  the  best  MSS.,  but  only  one  page  of  each. 
Let  us  give  a  whole  codex. 


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I  think  all  libraries  in  Europe  and  elsewhere  would  be  glad 
to  have  such  an  opportunity  of  acquiring  a  series  of  MSS.  which 
could   not   otherwise   be   procured. 

Our  confrere,  M.  Leopold  Delisle,  administrator  of  the  Bi- 
bliothequt  Nationale,  has  approved  of  the  proposal,  and  has 
been  kind  enough  to  write  and  tell  me  that  he  was  supported 
in  his  approval  by  the  Minister  of  PubUc  Instruction.  I  hope  the 
scheme   will   be   acceptable   to   English   philologists." 

12)  Among  the  answers  and  observations  which  his  colleagues 
sent  him  concerning  this  article,  that  which  Dr.  Hartwig  wrote 
in  his  „Centrallblatt  fur  Bibliothekswesen"  XI,  1894,  319,  merits 
report. 

„Ich  bin  der  Meinung,  dass  alle  von  der  Gesell- 
schaft  zu  veroffentlichenden  Facsimiledrucke  in  vol- 
ler  Zahl  anzufertigen  sind,  so  dass  jedes  der  Mitglieder 
der  Gesellschaft  ein  Exemplar  bekommt.  Dass  nur  cinige 
wenige  photographische  Nachbildungen  gemacht  werden, 
die  an  einige  Bibliotheken  vertheiit  werden  sollen,  wird 
schor.  desshalb  nicht  angehen,  weil  die  leer  ausgehenden 
Bibliotheken  keine  Lust  haben  werden,  fiir  andere  Biblio- 
theken Facsimiles  auf  ihre  Kosten  machen  zu  lassen. 
Wenn  auch  einzelne  Handschriften  nochmals  aufgenom- 
men  und  vervielfaltigt  werden,  welche  schon  genau  colla- 
tionirt,  ja  photographisch  aufgenommen  sind,  so  schadet 
das  nichts,  da  ja  die  Reproduktionen  an  der  betreffenden 
BibUothek  immer  erwiinscht  sind  und  z.  B.  auch  fiir  palaeo- 
graphische  Uebungen  sicher  gern  benutzt  werden.  Dass 
die  Aufnahmen  auf  das  dauerhafteste  Papier  und  in  der 
dauerhaftesten  jetzt  bekannten  Weise  gemacht  werden,  ver- 
steht  sich  von  selbst.  Wie  lange  die  Facsimiles  dauern  wer- 
den,   mag    die    Zukunft    entscheiden. 

Ich  halte  gerade  der  Kostenersparniss  wegen  dafiir, 
dass  die  Reproduktionen  von  Einem  Atelier  gefertigt  wer- 
den. Naturlich  miissen  die  photographischen  Aufnahmen 
an  Ort  und  Stelle  und  zwar  unter  der  Oberaufsicht  des 
Chefs  der  betreffenden  Behorde  gefertigt  werden.  Die  Ver- 


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fertigung  der  Aufnahmen  auf  Glas  oder  Papier  ist  nicht 
theuer  heut  zu  Tage  und,  wie  mir  von  fachkundiger  Seite 
versichert  wird,  ganz  ungefahrlich.  Hat  Ein  Atelier  die 
Sache  zu  besorgen,  so  wird  dieses  die  Reproduktion  bil- 
liger  liefern,  wenn  es  regelmassig  beschaftigt  ist.  Es  wird 
danr  auch  viel  Zeit  mit  Verhandlungen  erspart  werden,  die 
an  den  verschiedensten  Orten  mit  den  verschiedenen  Con- 
currenten  zu  fuhren  sein  wiirden.  Die  Versendung  der  ein- 
zelnen  Exemplare  wiirde  dann  auch  einheitlicher  und  siche- 
rer  erfolgen.  Zur  Vergleichung  mit  anderen  Angeboten 
fiige  ich  ein  hiesiges  bei,  nach  dem  fiir  200  Exemplare 
incl  Papier  verlangt  wird  fur  die  Bildgrosse  von  17/21 
cm  30  M.,  von  25/32  cm  50  M.,  von  32/42  cm  70  M.. 
von  42/53  cm  90  M. 

In  Betreff  der  Frage  4  bin  ich  mit  Ihnen  einverstan- 
den  Man  konnte  der  betreffenden  Bibliothek  aber  ein 
Facsimile   des   von   ihr   gelieferten   Originals   gratis   iiber- 

reichen. 

Es  sollten  meiner  Meinung  nach  die  wichtigsten  Hand- 
schriften  aller  Litteraturen,  nicht  nur  der  klassischen,  repro- 
ducirt  werden.  Zwanzig  von  ihnen  anzugeben  durfte  schwie- 
rig  sein,  da  wer  die  Wahl  auch  die  Qual  hat.  Mir  sind  von 
Vertretern  der  orientalischen  und  der  modernen  Sprachen 
eine  Menge  Handschriften  sofort  genannt  worden.  Die 
Auswahl  zu  treffen,  muss  dem  Direktorium  der  Gesellschaft, 
bei   dem   Antrage    einzunehmen    sind,    iiberlassen    werden. 

Gewiss  sind  alle  Zahlungsfahigen,  die  sich  auf  eine 
Reihe  von  Jahren  abonniren  wollen,  anzunehmen.  Ich  wurde 
jedoch  die  Zeit  der  Abonnementsbetheihgung  nur  auf  5 
Jahre  festsetzen.   Zehn  Jahre  wird   Manchem  als  zu  lang 

erscheinen. 

Gewiss    wiirden    mindestens    25—50    Abziige    mehr   zu 

machen  sein,  als  die  Gesellschaft  Abonnenten  hat.  Denn 

man  wiirde  ja  sonst  nachtraglich  Eintretenden  nichts  nach- 

liefern  konnen,   auch  wenn  sie  zahlen  woUten.   Es  diirfte 

sich  vielleicht   empfehlen,  den  Preis  fiir  Nachlieferungen 

iiber  den  gewohnlichen  Jahresbeitrag  etwas  zu  erhohen,  urn 


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Abonnenten  fiir  den  Eintritt  in  die  Gesellschaft  von  vorn- 
herein  geneigter  zu  machen." 

14)  Dr.  du  Rieu  received  another  detailed  answer  to  his  ques- 
tions from  the  editor  of  the  ,, Museum,"  Prof.  P.  S.  Speyer 
of  Groningen,  who  wrote  (N.  v.  II.  No.  10.  Dec.  1894, 
Kol.    373    v.v.) 

Dr.  W.  N.  du  Rieu  put  six  questions  to  which  he  wished  to 
receive  the  answers  in  this  paper.  Until  now  the  invitation  has 
not  been  accepted.  Should  we  gather  from  this  silence  that  our 
Dutch  classicists  take  no  interest  in  this  matter?  I,  for  one, 
cannot  place  a  great  value  on  this  argumentum  ex  silentis; 
but  I  am  of  opinion  that  most  of  the  questions,  asked  by  the 
Leyden  librarian,  could  be  adequately  answered  by  hbrarians, 
rather  than  by  scholars.  Yet  there  is  one  question,  viz.  no.  3, 
which  ought  to  draw  some  answer  from  classic  philologists,  who 
are,  more  than  anyone  else,  interested  in  this  matter,  as  it  is 
the  question  as  to  what  codices  should  be  considered  worthy 
of  b,eing   reproduced  in   their  entirety. 

Let  me.  therefore  try  to  answer  the  summons  of  Mr.  du  Rieu, 
as  far  as  important  latin  codices  are  concerned.  Others  who, 
like  me,  sympathize  with  Dr.  Hartwig's  enterprise,  may  be  indu- 
ced by  it  to  come  forward  with  desiderata  of  their  own.  Whatever 
may  have  been  decided  upon  at  Lake  Placid,  it  is  not  too  late 
for  such  a  list  of  manuscripts  recommended  for  reproduction. 
First,  however,  I  want  to  show  once  more  the  great  usefulness 
of  such  reproductions.  I  suppose  that  there  are  some  people  who 
do  not  think  such  a  costly  enterprise  fully  justified.  Now  we  have, 
they  will  say,  excellent  critical  editions  of  most  authors,  in  which, 
within  a  small  compass,  the  carefully  collected  and  selected  appa- 
ratus is  brought  within  the  reach  of  every-one;  as  a  rule  the 
filiation  of  manuscriptural  traditions  is  sufficiently  settled,  so 
that  every-one  knows,  or  may  learn  from  the  praefationes  of  the 
above-mentioned  critical  editions,  what  is  the  relative  value  of 
each  of  the  libri  MSS.  which  have  serv^ed  for  the  constitution 
of  the  text;  hence,  what  is  the  use  of  those  expensive  reproduc- 
tions? All  this  might  be  very  well  for  collectors  of  curiosa  and 


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for  bibliophiles,  but  does  it  render  any  great  services  to  science? 
And  the  study  of  palaeography  in  our  universities  is  sufficiently 
providec  for  hy  the  phototypes  of  the  London  Palaeographical 
Society  by  Chatelain  and  Zangemeister.  Those  who  speak  thus 
forger  that  „le  mieux  est  I'ennemi  du  bien."  A  good  apparatus 
criticus  is  an  excellent  thing,  which  one  has  every  reason  to  be 
grateful  for  to  the  man  who  put  it  together;  b;Ut  it  is  a  better 
thing  to  have  the  manuscripts  themselves  bfefore  one.  In  using 
the  former  the  reader  has  repeatedly  to  try,  not  without  diffi- 
culty, to  get  at  the  version  of  the  codex  concerned,  by  means 
of  scattered  data;  here  he  immediately  finds  what  he  looks  for 
in  the  very  writing  of  the  man  who  wrote  the  codex,  with  all 
those  small  details  which  are  of  so  much  importance  for  a  just 
valuatior  of  the  manuscriptural  evidence,  and  which  even  the 
most  exact  description  is  not  able  to  give  us  so  well  as  autopsy. 
Add  to  this  that  conjectural  criticism  never  gives  better  and  more 
fruitful  results  than  when  it  is  brought  about  by  reading  the 
texts  in  the  codices  themselves.  Therefore  we  should  applaud 
every  plan  which,  by  a  faithful  imitation  of  our  ol)jects  of  obser- 
vation, improves  in  no  small  degree  the  opportunities  for  the 
independent   critical   study  of  ancient   texts. 

Now,  as  to  the  codices  which  should  be  thought  worthy  of 
reproduction,  I  should  say:  in  the  first  place  take  those  which 
either  form  the  only  diplomatic  basis  for  the  texts  concerned, 
or  arc  of  the  utmost  importance  for  the  fixing  of  those  texts,  be- 
cause they  are  the  only  or  the  btest  representatives  of  a  class 
recognized  as  a  source.  Only  th,e  palimpsests  might  well  be  left 
out,  as,  with  regard  to  these,  the  end  aimed  at  by  reproductions, 
can,  as  a  rule,  better  be  gained  by  apographa,  as  the  late 
Studemund  made  for  Gaius  and  Plautus  of  the  Veronese  und 
Milanese  palimpsests.  Besides  the  famous  Pandect-codex  of  the 
Laurentiana,  the  reproduction  of  which  I  should  heartily  applaud, 
I    would   place   on    the   list: 

1.    The    Laurentianus    of   Varro's   libri    de    lingua    Latina. 

2  and  3.  The  two  Medicei  which  have  preserved  for  us  the 
Annals  and  History  of  Tacitus. 

4.   The   Pithoeanus   of  Juvenal   at    Montpellier.  , 


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5.  The  so-called  Puteaneus  of  Livy,  a  Parisinus,  which  con- 
tains the  third  decade. 

6.  The  Laurishamiensis,  the  only  manuscript  of  Livy  XLI— XLV 
in  the  court  library  at  Vienna. 

7  and  8.  The  excellent  Lucretius  Mss.  oblongus  and  quadratus, 
at  Leyden. 

9.  The    Parisinus    of    Minucius    Felix. 

10.  The    Bembinus    of    Terentius    in    the    Vatican    library. 

11.  The  codex  B.  of  Plautus,  as  the  b,est  representative  o'f  the 
Palatini,  also  in  the  Vatican. 

12.  The  codex  C.  of  Terentius,  one  of  the  Calliopiani,  famous 
for  its  miniatures,  which  is  also  the  property  of  the  Vatican  libjary. 

13.  The  so-styled  codex  Neapolitanus  of  Propertius  in  the 
library  at  Wolfenbiittel. 

13.  The  Laurentianus,  which  contains  the  Apologia,  Metamor- 
phoses and  Florida  of  Apulejus;  concerning  the  last  Prof.  Van 
der   Vliet    could   give    the    b^st   advice. 

In  what  goes  before  is  also  implied  in  what  manner,  according 
to  the  opinion  of  the  undersigned,  the  first  question  put  by  Dr. 
Du  Rieu  should  be  answered.  The  more  copies  are  made  the 
better.  As  many  scholars  as  possible  should  be  enabled  to  get 
acquainted  with  and  to  use  the  important  manuscripts  in  repro- 
ductions. A  relatively  large  impression  is  desirable  also  from 
a  financial  point  of  view.  In  this  case  too  this  is  likely  to  prove 
the  least  expensive  way".  ^) 


After  these  preliminary  measures  and  after  having  received 
the  promise  of  further  support  from  the  Dutch  Government  — 
if  necessary  — ,  Dr.  Du  Rieu  decided,  in  the  beginnmg  of  1895, 
to  come  forward  with  a  definite  proposal.  He  did  this  in  a 
circular  letter   written  in   French.,   which  ran  as   follows: 


^)  For  the  rest  comp.  Museum  II  457  etc. 


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jt^' 


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BIBLIOTHEQUE  DE  L'UNIVERSITE  DE  LEYDE. 

Soeiete  Internationale  pour  la 
reproduction  des  MSS.  les  plus  preeieux. 


LEYDE,  le  22  F6vrier  1895. 

Monsieur  et  tres  honors  Collegue ! 

Permettez  moi  de  vous  rappeler  I'id^e  de  notre  collo- 
gue de  la  BibliothOque  Universitaire  de  Halle  (Saxe),  M.  le 
dr.  O.  Hart  wig,  de  fonder  une  association  internatio- 
nale  de  Directeurs  de  BibliothOques  pour  la  reproduc- 
tion autotypique  de  MSS.  Grecs,  Latins  et  autres,  qui, 
k    cause    de   leur    valeur    exceptionnelle,    ne    peuvent    etre 

consult^s  que  sur  place. 

C'est  k  Chicago,  au  CongrOs  des  Biblioth6caires  du 
monde  entier,  en  1893,  que  ce  projet  se  produisit  au 
grand  jour,  et  la  BibliothOque  confine  k  mes  soins  fut 
alors  reconnue,  k  cause  de  sa  situation,  et  des  facilitds 
que  les  savants  y  trouvent  depuis  longtemps  pour  I'usage 
des  manuscrits,  comme  d6sign6e  d'avance  pour  devenir 
Ic  siOge  d'une  institution  appel6e  ^  rendre  service  ^  tant 
de  savants  de  tous  les  pays. 

Ayant  regu  un  appui  des  plus  honorables  de  plusieurs 
de  mes  collogues,  j'ouvris  dans  le  courant  de  1894  une 
correspondance  active  avec  ceux,  qui  partageaient  mes 
idees   sur   l'utilit6   de   I'entreprise. 

L'assembl^e  de  Chicago  ayant  renvoy^  sans  discussion 
I'examen  du  projet  au  congrOs  de  I'Association  des  Biblio- 
th^caires  Americains  en  1894,  on  me  promit  de  I'appuyer, 
pour  que  les  nombreuses  Biblioth^ques  du  nouvcau  monde, 
auxquelles  il  n'est  pas  donn6  de  pouvoir  se  procurer  des 
codices  membranacei  du  moyen  ige,  pussent  b(jn6- 


E. 


If 

ficier  de  la  reproduction  des  plus  c^lObres  manuscrits  des 
grandes  bibliothOques  de  TEurope,  et  eussent  I'honneur 
de  contnbuer  k  la  conservation  et  k  I'^ude  des  textes 
les  plus  preeieux  pour  I'histoire  et  la  litt^rature 

J'mvitai  de  mtoe  dans  plusieurs  revues,  telles  que  le 
Centralblatt  fur  Bibliothekswesen,  et  la  Revue  des 
BibhothOques,  M.M.  les  professeurs  de  philologie  clas- 
sique.  amsi  que  mes  collogues,  k  vouloir  discuter  dans 
ces  revues  quelques  points  essentiels,  afin  de  nous  guider 
dans  1  adoptK>n  des  bases  convenables  k  cette  institution 
toute  nouvelle. 

Voulant  savoir  sur  quels  points  devraient  porter  nos 
premiers  efforts  je  priai  encore  les  savants  de  me  signaler 
une  douzame  de  MSS.  dont  la  reproduction  pourrait 
maugurer  e  plus  utilement  et  le  plus  briUamment  les 
debuts  de  1  entreprise. 

z.in"^   H  °"  f  ^"'^  '^^"'''  ''^'  ^  P"'"^  ^^«"  «««  demi-dou- 
zame   de   rdponses   et   les   objections   qu'on   pouvait   faire 

au  projet  n-ont  gu^re  ^t^  discut^es.  Au  premier  moment. 

fai  Ihonneur  de.  m'attribuer  rinitiative,  et  j'^tais  tentd 
je  1  avoue,  d'abandonner  le  terrain  4  I'industrie  priv^e  qui' 
dans  presque  tous  les  pays  de  TEurope,  a  ex^cutd  des 
reproducfons  excellemes,  mais  d'un  prix  trop  ^evd  Ce- 
pendant,  avant  de  nous  retirer  devant  les  Artistes,  qui 
eprodu.sent  nos  MSS.  en  s'inspirant  principalement  dL 

t^y.nTT      '  '""'  '""  <=^"  "''"^^  d«  ^^--der  aux 
mf-il  '«"/.°P'"'°n  sur  une  entreprise  Internationale 

patLr",         ""'   '^   ^°'^   ""''^'^   --   '^^   P^^occu: 
pations  exclusivement  scientifiques 

rl^\  f "f"    !f'"'''''   ^^  rinstruction   s'est   d^clar^   favo- 
rable i  la  fondafon  de  cette  association,  et  le  Gouverne 
ment  des  Pays-Bas  vient  de  prendre  les  devants    en  p" 

suSe  '"/'"^   '''"'""''   '^'^^'^°^^"   ^  I-entrepri^e'un 
ub.de  modeste,   mais  permanent,  qui  nous  est  un  puis- 
sant    encouragement. 

Ce  subside  vient  d'etre  vot^;  j'ai  done  I'honneur  de  faire 


lii\ 


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un  appel  k  tous  mes  collogues,  aux  chefs  des  biblioth^ques 
d'Etat  et  des  biblioth^ques  de  toutes  les  grandes  institu- 
tions litt^raires,  universit^s,  academies,  s^minaires  philo- 
logiques,   etc.   etc. 

Je  viens  leur  adresser  ces  deux  questions: 
1°.  Approuvez-vous  ce  moyen  simple  et  peu  co(iteux,  de  faire 
annuellement  I'acquisition  de  la  reproduction  d'un  ma- 
nuscrit  particuli^rement  pr^cieux,  dont  I'original  ne  saurait 
^tre  d^placd  pour  etre  communique  k  vos  compatriotes, 
dans  le  ddpot  confix  k  vos  soins?  D^sirez  vous  rendre 
ce  service  aux  savants  de  votre  pays? 
2°.  Pouvez-vous  en  quality  de  Directeur  de  votre  Biblioth^que, 
vous  faire  inscrire,  vous  et  vos  successeurs  6ventuels, 
comme  membre  de  I'association,  avec  obligation  de  payer, 
pendant  une  p^riode  de  dix  ans,  la  cotisation  annuelle 
dont  le  montant  sera  iix6  par  les  statuts  ddfinitifs  (100 
ou  150  francs)? 

Si  vous  n'avez  pas  ce  droit,  et  beaucoup  de  nos  collogues 
ne  I'ont  pas,  voulez-vous  demander  h  votre  Gouvernement, 
ou  aux  autorit^s  charg^es  de  r^gler  les  acquisitions,  si 
votre  Biblioth^que  pourrait  se  faire  inscrire  comme  mem- 
bre de  I'association  pour  une  p6riode  de  dix  ans,  afin  de 
s'assurer  la  possession  d'un  exemplaire  de  tous  les  MSS. 
que  la  soci^t^  fera  reproduire? 

Veuillez,  s'il  vous  plait,  m'honorer  de  votre  rdponse 
avant  le  15  Mars  quelle  qu'elle  soit;  je  vous  en  serai  fort 
oblige.  L'appui  que  j'ai  regu  de  mon  Gouvernement  me 
fait  un  devoir  d'arriver  le  plus  t6t  possible  h  une  solution. 
Aussitdt  que  j'aurai  r^uni  un  nombre  suffisant  d'adh6- 
sions,  j'inviterai  les  adherents  k  choisir,  entre  Messieurs 
les  Directeurs  des  principales  Biblioth^ques  de  I'Europe, 
douze  dei^gu^s  qui  seraient  pri^s  de  venir  ou  de  se  faire 
repr^senter  k  une  reunion  convoqu^e  k  Leyde  dans  le  cou- 
rant  de  I'ann^e,  pour  jeter  ensemble,  apr^s  m(ir  examen 
e:  discussion,  les  bases  de  I'association  k  dtablir  pr^s  de 
la  Biblioth^que  de  notre  University. 

C*est  k  ce  Comit^  qu'il  appartiendra  de  fixer  la  coti- 


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sation  annuelle,  de  choisir  les  MSS.  k  reproduire,  d'exa- 
miner  les  proc^d^s  de  reproductions,  de  determiner  le 
chiffre  du  tirage  et  de  r^gler  toutes  les  questions  se  rat- 
tachant  au  fonctionnement  de  I'association. 

Veuillez    agreer,    tr^s    honor^    Collogue,    I'assurance    de 
mes  sentiments  distingu^s. 

le  Dr.  W.  N.  DU  RIEU, 

Directeur  de  la  Bibliotheque  de  I'Universite, 

Although  this  letter  was  sent  to  all  hbraries  in  the  different 
parts  of  the  world  the  result   was  very  small.   Many  sent   their 
assurance    of   great    sympathy    and    their   promise    to    co-operate 
or  their  advice,  but  the  number  of  librarians  who  would  and  could 
promise  to  become  members  of  the  proposed  society-  remained 
far  below  what  was  expected ;  and  at  any  rate  too  small  to  begin 
anythmg  without  too  great  a  risk.  Dr.  du  Rieu  had  always  decla- 
red  that    he    would    take    the   direction   of   this    enterprise    only 
if  he   could  obtain  some   certainty  of  success,   that  is  to  say    if 
a  sufficient  number  of  colleagues  would  engage  to  pay  a  fixed 
yearly  contribution  for  a  certain  number  of  (say  ten)  years.  But  now 
It  appeared  that  many  librarians  could  not  take  upon  them  to  pay 
contribution  for  many  years,  owing  to  administrative  or  financial 
reasons.    Only    thirty-three    agreed   to   give   this  assurance     The 
promises   expected   from   rich  American   libraries   did   not   come 
Owing  to   this  Dr.  du   Rieu  was  obliged,   with  great  regret    to 
let   the    enterprise   rest.    He    informed   his    colleagues   of   this   in 
a  printed   letter,  which  ran  as  follows: 


18 


19 


un  appel  k  tous  mes  collogues,  aux  chefs  des  biblioth^ques 
d'Etat  et  des  biblioth^ques  de  toutes  les  grandes  institu- 
tions litt^raires,  universit^s,  academies,  s^rninaires  philo- 
logiques,   etc.   etc. 

Je  viens  leur  adresser  ces  deux  questions: 
1°.  Approuvez-vous  ce  moyen  simple  et  peu  coiiteux,  de  faire 
annuellement  I'acquisition  de  la  reproduction  d'un  ma- 
nuscrit  particuli^rement  pr^cieux,  dont  Toriginal  ne  saurait 
6tre  d^placd  pour  etre  communique  k  vos  compatriotes, 
dans  le  d6p6t  confix  k  vos  soins?  D6sirez  vous  rendre 
ce  service  aux  savants  de  votre  pays? 
2°.  Pouvez-vous  en  quality  de  Directeur  de  votre  Biblioth^que, 
vous  faire  inscrire,  vous  et  vos  successeurs  ^ventuels, 
comme  membre  de  I'association,  avec  obligation  de  payer, 
pendant  une  p^riode  de  dix  ans,  la  cotisation  annuelle 
dont  le  montant  sera  fixd  par  les  statuts  d^finitifs  (100 
ou  150  francs)? 

Si  vous  n'avez  pas  ce  droit,  et  beaucoup  de  nos  collogues 
ne  I'ont  pas,  voulez-vous  demander  h  votre  Gouvernement, 
ou  aux  autorit^s  charg^es  de  r^gler  les  acquisitions,  si 
votre  Biblioth^que  pourrait  se  faire  inscrire  comme  mem- 
bre de  I'association  pour  une  p^riode  de  dix  ans,  afin  de 
s*assurer  la  possession  d'un  exemplaire  de  tous  les  MSS. 
que  la  soci6t6  fera  reproduire? 

Veuillez,  s'il  vous  plait,  m'honorer  de  votre  rdponse 
avant  le  15  Mars  quelle  qu'elle  soit;  je  vous  en  serai  fort 
oblige.  L'appui  que  j'ai  regu  de  mon  Gouvernement  me 
fait  un  devoir  d'arriver  le  plus  t6t  possible  k  une  solution. 
Aussitdt  que  j'aurai  r^uni  un  nombre  suffisant  d'adh6- 
sions,  j'inviterai  les  adherents  k  choisir,  entre  Messieurs 
les  Directeurs  des  principales  Biblioth^ques  de  I'Europe, 
douze  dei^gu^s  qui  seraient  pri^s  de  venir  ou  de  se  faire 
repr^senter  k  une  reunion  convoqu^e  k  Leyde  dans  le  cou- 
rant  de  Tannic,  pour  jeter  ensemble,  apr^s  m{ir  examen 
e:  discussion,  les  bases  de  I'association  k  dtablir  pr^s  de 
la  Biblioth^que  de  notre  University. 

C*est  k  ce  Comit6  qu'il  appartiendra  de  fixer  la  coti- 


sation annuelle,  de  choisir  les  MSS.  k  reproduire,  d'exa- 
miner  les  procdd^s  de  reproductions,  de  determiner  le 
chiffre  du  tirage  et  de  r^gler  toutes  les  questions  se  rat- 
ta chant  au  fonctionnement  de  I'association. 

Veuillez    agreer,    tr^s   honord    Collogue,    I'assurance    de 
mes  sentiments  distinguds. 

le  Dr.  W.  N.  DU  RIEU, 

Directeur  de  la  Bibliotheque  de  l*  Universite. 

Although  this  letter  was  sent  to  all  Hbraries  in  the  different 
parts  of  the  world   the  result   was   very  small.   Many  sent   their 
assurance    of   great    sympathy    and    their    promise    to    co-operate 
or  their  advice,  but  the  number  of  librarians  who  would  and  could 
promise  to  b.ecome  members  of  the  proposed  society-  remained 
far  below  what  was  expected;  and  at  any  rate  too  small  to  begin 
anything  without  too  great  a  risk.  Dr.  du  Rieu  had  always  decla- 
red  that    he    would    take    the   direction   of   this    enterprise   only 
if  he  could  obtain  some   certainty  of  success,   that  is  to  say,  if 
a  sufficient  number  of  colleagues  would  engage  to  pay  a  fixed 
yearly  contribution  for  a  certain  number  of  (say  ten)  years.  But  now 
It  appeared  that  many  librarians  could  not  take  upon  them  to  pay 
contribution  for  many  years,  owing  to  administrative  or  financial 
reasons.    Only    thirty-three    agreed   to   give   this   assurance.   The 
promises   expected   from   rich  American   libraries   did   not   come. 
Owmg  to   this  Dr.  du   Rieu  was  obliged,   with  great  regret,  to 
let   the   enterprise   rest.    He   informed   his   colleagues   of   this   in 
a  printed  letter,  which  ran  as  follows: 


.  *    >  -  _ 


.  f 


io 


BIBLIOTHEQUE  DE  L'UNIVERSITE  DE  LEYDE. 

Soeiete  Internationale  pour  la 
reproduction  des  MSS.  les  plus  preeieux. 


LEYDE,  le  20  mai  1895. 
Monsieur  et  tres  honors  Collegue  I 

C'est  avec  un  regret  bien  legitime  que  je  me  sens 
oblig^  de  vous  faire  part  de  la  mauvaise  r^ussite  de  mes 
efforts. 

Faute  de  Socidtaires  il  me  parait  impossible  pour  le 
moment  de  fonder  une  association  Internatio- 
nale pour  la  reproduction  autotypique  des 
plus  preeieux  MSS. 

Une  centaine  de  mes  lettres  ne  fut  pas  honor^e  de  r6- 
ponse.  Je  n'ose  attendre  plus  longtemps  pour  vous  dire 
oil  nous  en  sommes. 

II  n'y  a  que  33  Collogues  qui  se  d^clarent  Soci^taires 
pour  dix  ans;  et  parmi  25  autres,  retenus  plus  ou  moins 
par  leur  r^glements,  motif  de  comptabilit^  ou  autre, 
plusieurs  donneraient  leur  adhesion.  Nous  pourrions  arri- 
ver  k  r^unir  une  cinquantaine  de  Soci^taires,  mais  le 
nombre  de  cent  ne  sera  pas  atteint;  je  me  vois  done 
oblig6  de  renoncer  k  la  tiche  que,  sur  I'invitation  de 
plusieurs  de  mes  collogues,  je  m'^tais  impos^e  par  amour 
de   la   science   et   dans   I'int^r^t   des   travaux   d'erudition. 

Le  nombre  insuffisant  des  adhesions  m'empeche  d'inviter 
Messieurs  les  Directeurs  de  dix  ou  douze  des  plus  fameuses 
Biblioth^ques  de  I'Europe  k  venir  k  Leyde  pour  d^lib^rer 
sur  plusieurs  points  k  arr^ter.  Je  sais  d'avance  que  les 
frais  de  l'op6ration  ne  permettraient  pas  de  donner  chaque 
ann^e  la  reproduction  d'un  manuscrit  de  quelques  cen- 
taines  de  pages  dans  des  conditions  dignes  de  la  Soci^td, 


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Nous  avons  le  ferme  espoir  que  notre  projet  sera  repris, 
un  jour  ou  lautre,  avec  plus  de  succ^s.  En  attendant,' 
nous  nous  consolerons  si  les  dditeurs  de  reproductions 
hdliographiques  ou  autres,  auxquels  nous  devons  ddjk  de 
si  utiles  travaux,  trouvent  moyen  de  concilier  leurs  intd- 
r^ts  avec  ceux  des  biblioth^ques  dont  les  ressources  sont 
si   limitdes. 

Agrdez.   Monsieur  et  tr^s  honord  Collogue,  le  renouvel- 
lement   de  Thommage   de   mes   sentiments   respectueux. 

le  Dr.  W.  N.   DU  RIEU, 

Directeur  de  la  Bibliotheque  de  fUmverstU. 

Scarcely  had   this   letter   been   sent  away  when   Dr.   du   Rieu 
received  from   many   scholars   their  assurances  of  regret  at   the 
miscarrying  of   his   praise-worthy   attempts.    Already   cheered   by 
this  he  was  soon  roused  to  fresh  activity  by  letters  from  diffe- 
rent inland  and   foreign  publishers   who  offered  their  help  and 
who  mentioned  more  or  less  favourable  conditions  on  which  they 
were  ready  to  realise  part  of  his  plans.  He  decided  after  careful 
consideration  not  to  finally  give  up  the  enterprise  but  to  take  an 
offer,  which  seemed  particularly  acceptable,  that  of  the  Leyden  pu- 
blisher, A.  W.  Sijthoff.  The  latter  offered  to  publish  at  his  own 
risk  photographic  reproductions  of  a  series  of  twelve  of  the  most 
celebrated  classic  Greek  and  Latin  MSS.,  under  the  direction  of 
Dr.  du  Rieu.  Each  part  could  be  bought  alone,  subscription  not 
bemg   compulsory.    Each   library   and   private   individual    should 
have  the  opportunity  on  Ihe  appearance  of  each  part  to  decide 
if  the  purchase  were  desirable  or  possible.  The  pubhcation  was 
to  be  begun  immediately  and  with  energy,  so  that  one  could  pro- 
mise with  certainty  that  every  year  a  part  should  be  published 
Ihe  only  condition  was  that  the  Leyden  librarian  should  be  wil- 
ling to  take  the  direction  of  the  enterprise.  Such  an  offer  was 
considered  by  Dr.  du  Rieu  as  specially  acceptable.   He  tarried 
no  longer  in  accepting  it,  and  so  began  Sijthoffs  enterprise  of 
tne  „Codices  Graeci  et  Latini." 


J 


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II. 


Mr.  du  Rieu  immediately  began  in  an  energetic  manner  to 
make  preparations  for  this  new  enterprise.  First  he  published 
an  article  in  „De  Nederl.  Spectator",  Febr.  1896,  in  which  he 
told  of  the  miscarrying  of  his  first  attempts  and  of  his  new  plans : 


\ 


„After  some  consideration  I  decided  to  connect  this  enterprise 
with  the  name  of  the  Leyden  library,  and  to  accept  the  offer  of 
my  fellow  citizen,  Mr.  A.  W.  Sijthoff,  the  experienced  publisher. 

But  I  could  do  this  only  after  making  sure  of  the  permission 
and  the  co-operation  of  the  librarians  whose  permission  was 
required  for  the  photographing  of  their  codices.  This  took  some 
time;  besides  I  wanted  to  consult  personally  some  colleagues, 
whose  knowledge  and  experience  I  value  most,  now  that  I  could 
not  invite  them  to  a  meeting  in  our  Dutch  Athens.  This  I  did, 
with  favourable  results,  in  the  autumn,  and  in  1896  the  time 
came  for  Mr.  Sijthoff  to  make  his  calculations  and  to  choose  the 
best  out  of  the  many  artistic  firms  who  have  proved  most  suc- 
cessful  in   ,this    work. 

(An  early  specimen  paper  and  a  subscription  list  will  be  sent. 
I  have  the  highest  expectations,  because  the  great  inconvenience 
on  account  of  which  the  society  of  librarians  was  not  possible 

—  namely  the  contract  for  perhaps  ten  years  without  knowing 
how  many  reproductions  they  or  their  successors  were  to  receive 

—  has  been  removed. 

The  publisher  can  and  will  deUver  excellent  autotypic  repro- 
ductions or  whatever  name  shall  be  given  to  this  process.  He 
asks  payment  only  after  supplying  a  codex  bound  in  mediaeval 
style  and  he  compels  no  subscriber  to  buy  also  the  other  eleven 
manuscripts,  because  he  is  'sure  that  excellent  reproductions, 
at  a  suitable  price,  cannot  be  refused  by  the  university  libraries. 

The  plan  is  to  begin  with  a  series  of  twelve  codices,  only  Greek 
and  Latin,  excluding  the  middle  German  and  middle  French, 
and  also  codices  which  contain  only  illustrations;  there  will  be 


i     I 


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(i 


some  miniatures  and  fine  capital  letters,  but  not  so  many  as, 
for  example,  in  the  magnificent  but  very  expensive  Viennese 
Genesis,  which  Greek  codex  is  accompanied  by  a  precious  and 
extensive  historic  introduction  and  critical  text-edition. 

Each  codex  will  appear  only  with  a  short  Latin  introduction 
throwing  light  upon  the  history,  the  value  and  the  writing  of  the 
original,  written  by  an  expert  at  the  library  which  possesses  the 
preciosum  At  least,  my  colleagues  have  given  me  some  promises 
as  to  this,  as  a  renewed  proof  of  their  kindness  which  I  value  very 
highly. 

I  conclude  with  a  few  words  about  the  choice  of  the  codices 
that  are  to  be  considered  first.  I  shall  not  speak  for  the  present 
about  the  second  series,  in  which  I  place  some  which  I  could 
not  bring  among  the  first  six  Greek  codices  unici  and  six  Latin 
ones.  But  I  will  observe  that  the  few  lists,  received  from  highly 
esteemed  quarters,  concerning  the  most  desired  twelve  pieces, 
were  so  widely  divergent  that  I  decided  to  make  an  independent 
and  impartial  choice.  The  preference  for  less  classical  writers 
and  the  antipathy  between  the  nations  were  so  obvious  that  a 
majorit>  of  votes  could  not  be  thought  of. 

I  preferred  the  oldest  codex  or  the  most  excellent  of  eleven 
classical  writers,  but  first  I  take  the  Codex  Sarravianus  of  the 
Pentateuch  at  the  Leyden  library;  one  hundred  and  thirty  of 
the  quarto  folios  in  two  columns  of  the  manuscript  of  Sarrau 
have  been  preserved  here  since  the  States  of  Holland  and  West- 
Friesland  bought  this  precious  book  with  so  many  excellent  MSS. 
from  the  library  left  by  Isaac  Vassius.  But  twenty  two  folia  are 
at  Paris  in  the  Biblioth^que  Nationale,  while  two  pages  are  pre- 
served in  the  Imperial  Library  at  St.  Petersburg.  It  seems  to 
me  that  we  could  not  make  a  better  beginning  in  our  time,  when 
we  so  often  hear  of  internationalism,  than  by  asking  the  help 
of  these  three  libraries  for  uniting  what  has  been  separated  in 
originali  for  ,such  a  long  time,  and  what,  reproduced  in  an  ade- 
quate manner,  will  give  a  picture  of  the  MSS.  of  the  five  hooks 
of    Moses,    formerly    copied    in    the    same    Greek    monastery. 

Moreover  this  codex  is  well  worth  being  consulted  by  the  friends 
of  exegesis,  even  after  the  oldest  texts  published  by  Tischendorf, 


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the  more  so  as  this  Bible-lover  did  not  entirely  collate  the  Leyden 
manuscript.  May  Mr.  Sythoff's  enterprise,  beginning  with  the 
reproduction  of  God's  word  in  the  oldest  form  preserved,  be 
of  great  use  in  promoting  the  knowledge  of  the  Holy  Scriptures 
and  in  being  a  source  of  edification  to  the  pious  reader  I. 

The  plan  of  placing  in  the  first  series  the  oldest  Terence  and 
the  best  Virgil  of  the  Vatican,  both  uncial  MSS.,  could  be  given 
up,  as,  a  short  time  ago,  we  received  the  joyful  tidings  that  these 
excellent  Vatican  Codices  are  to  be  reproduced  at  the  expense 
of  the  Pope.  Now  I  selected  in  their  stead  the  Virgil  Mediceus 
of  the  5th  cent  and  the  Horace  of  Bern  of  the  9th,  the  Anthologia' 
Latina  of  Paris  of  the  7th  or  8th,  the  only  Tacitus  of  The  9th 
of  the  Laurentiana,  and  of  the  Leyden  collection  the  Lucretius 
oblongus  of  the  9th  cent.  Of  all  these  codices  the  writing  is 
perfectly  known  through  the  facsimiles,  &nd  the  ablest  editors 
have  acknowledged  them  to  be  the  most  venerable  and  excellent, 
so   that   the   study   of   the   classics   will   greatly   profit   by   them. 

The  same  may  be  said  of  the  Greek  codices  which  I  selected  in 
the  first  place.  The  Aeschylus  of  the  Laurentiana  of  the  10th 
or  the  11th  cent.;  the  Anthologia  Graeca  of  Heidelberg  of  the 
same  time,  a  part  of  which  is  preserved  at  Paris;  the  Viennese 
Dioscorides  of  the  6th  cent.,  with  very  remarkable  miniatures, 
the  Ilias  Homeri  of  the  codex  Ambrasianus,  in  which  are  also 
drawings,  and  the  Oxford  Plato  MS.  of  895,  which  Professor 
Cobet  greatly  preferred  to  the  Paris  Plato. 

Thus  it  is  seen  that  the  enterprise  which  Mr.  Sijthoff  has 
begun  is  not  an  ordinary  one,  and,  as  the  success  of  the  repro- 
duction is  certain,  a  new  field  of  research  is  opened  to  philolo- 
gists. '    I 

Those  who  wish  to  read  and  consult  the  classic  authors  in  the 
oldest  form  handed  down  to  us,  because  this  study  is  highly  im- 
portant for  text-criticism,  will  be  glad  to  buy  these  reproduced 
codices  or  will  be  glad  to  see  that  they  are  purchased  by  scienti- 
fic libraries.  It  may  also  be  hoped  that  the  many  librarians  who, 
until  now,  were  unable  to  send  me  an  answer  on  account  of  ad- 
ministrative reasons,  will  eagerly  avail  themselves  of  the  oppor- 
tunity now  offered  them  to  purchase  those  excellently  reproduced 


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MSS.,  if  their  financial  means  permit,  and  if  a  look  at  such  a 
codex  convinces  them  that  the  money  asked  will  be  well  spent." 

Meanwhile  so  much  work  had  already  been  done  that  not  only 
the  twelve  MSS.  to  be  reproduced  had  been  selected  and,  in 
most  cases,  definite  agreements  had  been  made  with  the  owners 
of  them,  but  also  that  the  first  part  was  quite  ready,  and  its  publi- 
cation could  be  expected. 

For  this  first  part  was  chosen  one  of  the  oldest  and  best  Greek 
manuscripts  of  the  Old  Testament,  the  codex  Sarravianus,  one 
part  of  which  is  preserved  at  Leyden,  another  part  at  Paris  and 
two  pages,  at  St.  Petersburg.  It  seemed  appropriate,  as  Dr.  du  Rieu 
observed,  to  begin  with  this  famous  Biblical  MS.,  the  three- 
parts  of  whose  original,  being  spread  over  three  countries 
could  never  more  be  brought  together.  Now  the  old  original  could 
be  reproduced  in  its  entirety  in  an  exact  phototype  copy. 

Already  in  April  1896  Dr.  du  Rieu  had  the  great  satisfaction 
of  being  able  to  communicate  to  his  colleagues  the  immediate- 
appearance  of  this  first  part  and  the  plans  concerning  the  follow- 
mg  parts,   in   this   circular   letter: 

REPRODUCTION  DES  MANUSCRITS  GRECS  ET 

LATINS  NON-TOURISTES 
Dr.  W.  N.  DU  RIEU 

Bibliothdcaire   de   l'Universit6   k   Leyde. 

LEIDEN,    April    1896. 


LEYDE,  Avril  1896. 


Monsieur, 


L'ann^e  derni^re  s'^tait  form^  le  projet  d'une  Socidtd  de 
Biblioth^caires  pour  la  reproduction  photographique,  aux 
frais  de  la  Soci^t^,  des  manuscrits  les  plus  pr^cieux. 

Ce  projet,   sugg^r6   par  mon  aimable   collogue  le   Dr. 


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Hart  wig  de  la  Biblioth^que  de  Halle,  fut  port6  k  la 
connaissance  de  tous  mes  collogues  et  un  grand  nombre 
d'entre  eux  applaudirent  k  I'id^e  de  fixer  h  Leyde  le 
si^ge  de  cette  association,  sous  la  Direction  du  Bibliothd- 
caire  de  son  University. 

On  est  d'accord  sur  les  services  immenses  que  pourraient 
rendre,  s'ils  6taient  reproduits  en  grand  nombre,  les  Manus- 
crits  Grecs  et  Latins  de  premier  ordre  qu'on  ne  peut  con- 
suiter  actuellement  que  dans  les  Biblioth^ques  memes, 
o^  ils  sont  conserves  avec  les  plus  grands  soins.  Chaque 
University,  chaque  College  ou  Institution  scientifique  pour- 
ra  ainsi  se  procurer  un  exemplaire  remplagant  parfaitement 
I'original.  MM.  les  Professeurs  s'en  serviront  dans  leurs 
cours  de  pal^ographie  et  les  savants  les  consulteront  k 
domicile  pour  verifier  les  legons  douteuses. 

Malheureusement  des  raisons  d'ordre  administratif  em- 
p^ch^rent  plusieurs  Directeurs  d'entrer  dans  I'association 
projet^e.  Je  r6solus  d'attendre  des  temps  meilleurs. 

Voici  h  present  que  de  divers  c6t^s  messieurs  les  Edi- 
teurs  hollandais  et  Strangers  m'ont  prid  d'entreprendre 
Taffaire  sous  ma  Direction,  mais  k  leurs  risques  et  perils. 
Apr^s  m{ire  deliberation,  j'ai  accept^  Toff  re  de  mon  com- 
patriote,  Monsieur  A.  W.  S  ij  t  h  o  f  f ,  I'Editeur  de  Leyde, 
si  avantageusement   connu. 

Convaincu  de  I'immense  intdret  qu'  offriront  des  Manus- 
crits  classiques  dignement  reproduits.  Monsieur  S  ij  t  h  o  £  f 
est  jaloux  d'offrir  aux  nombreuses  Biblioth^ques  I'occasion 
de  faire  Tacquisition  d'une  sdrie  de  12  reproductions  d'apr^s 
des  originaux  choisis  dans  les  ddpdts  les  plus  riches  de 
rEurope. 

Grice  aux  derniers  perfectionnements  employes  de  nos 
jours  par  nos  artistes,  une  reproduction  peut  durer  tou- 
jours  et  prendra  parfaitement  la  place  de  I'original  et, 
par  la  g6n6rosit6  de  M.  Sijthoff,  le  prix  n'en  sera  pas 
trop   6lev6. 

Avant  de  promettre  mon  concours  k  Tentreprenant 
Editeur,    j'eus    le  plaisir  de  m'assurer  du  concours  indis- 


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pcnsable  de  mes  collegues,  gardicns,  dans  leurs  depots 
scientifiques,  des  Manuscrits  qui  paraitront  dans  la  pre- 
miere sdrie.  Tous  rdpondirent  de  la  mani^re  la  plus  loyale  , 
k  ma  pri^re,  me  permirent  de  faire  faire  la  reproduction 
el  en  outre  me  donn^rent  la  perspective  d'une  Introduc- 
tion, necessaire  pour  la  connaissance  approfondie  de  cha- 
que Manuscrit. 

J'ai  I'avantage  de  vous  presenter  le  Prospectus  de  M. 
I'Editeur:  il  pourra  rdpondre  aux  diffdrentes  questions  qui 
se  prdsenteront  apr^s  la  lecture  de  ces  lignes.  Mais  quant 
au  choix  des  12  premiers  Manuscrits,  il  faut  savoir  que 
je  n'ai  voulu  prendre  que  les  plus  anciens  et  les  meilleurs 
des  classiques,  suivant  I'opinion  des  savants  et  des  Biblio- 
thdcaires    que   j'ai    consultes   k   cet    effet. 

Si  cette  entreprise  grandiose  reussit,  une  seconde  sdrie  de 
Manuscrits  est  deja  choisie  que  j'aurais  voulu  placer  dans 
la  premiere.  La  liste  de  ces  Manuscrits  est  jointe  k  ma 
lettre. 

La  rdussite  est  plus  que  probable,  I'Editeur  n'obligeant 
pas  MM.  les  souscripteurs  k  se  lier  pour  une  s6ne  de  plu- 
sieurs Manuscrits.  De  cette  mani^re  est  dcartde  la  diffi- 
cultd  administrative  qui  fut  cause  de  notre  6chec  de  I'annde 
passde:  plusieurs  bibliothecaires  ne  purent  s'associer  k 
notre  entreprise,  une  part  des  risques  et  des  frais  dtant 
mise  k  leur  charge. 

Le  prix  sera  proportionnd  au  nombre  des  pages  et  k  leurs 
dimensions. 

Je  me  flatte  de  pouvoir  rendre  un  service  des  plus 
sdrieux  k  I'etude  des  Manuscrits  des  classiques  Grecs  et 
Latins,  k  la  Paldographie  et  a  I'Histoire  de  I'Art;  les  savants 
de  tous  pays  y  trouveront,  sans  aucun  doute,  leur  profit. 

Dr.  W.  N.  D  U  R  I  E  U, 

Directeur  de  la  Biblioihdque  de  TUniversit^  de  Leyde. 


Y-  '^'■•"-  --' 


■     I  i^aHiliU 


**" 


t. 


i  1 


II 


CODICES  GRAECI  ET  LATINI 

quos 

duce  Bibliothecae  Universitatis  Leidensis  Praefecto 

Dr.  GUILL.  NIC.  DU  RIEU 

autotypice  edendos  sibi  proponit 

A.  W.  SIJTHOFF 

Editor  Leidensis. 


Series  I. 


Testamentum  Vetus  Grace  e.  Codex  Sarravia 
nus-Colbertinus  saec.  V,  cuius  pars  Leidae  (Voss.  Gr.  Q 
8),  pars  Parisiis  (Gr.  17  Colb.  3084),  unum  folium  Petro 
poli  in  Bibliotheca  Imperiali  servantur.  —  Tischendorf 
Monumenta  sacra  inedita.  Nova  coUectio.  Vol.  Ill,  t.  1 
Omont,  Fac-simil^s  d.  pi.  anc.  mss.  gr.  d.  1.  Bibl.  Nat 
t.  2.  cet. 

Aeschylus.  Codex  Laurentianus  XXXII,  9  saec 
X— XI.  —  Palaeogr.  Society  t.  83.  Collezione  Fiorent.  t.  IX 

Anthologia  Graeca.  Codex  Palatinus  saec.  X— XI 
Pars  prior  =  Cod.   Heidelberg.  23.   Pars  altera  =  Cod 
Paris,  suppl.  Gr.  384.  —  Wattenbach,  Exempla  codd.  Grace 
t.  36.   Omont,  t.  33.  (Cf.   Centralblatt  f.   Bibliothekswesen 
IX,    pag.    40). 

Dioscorides.  Codex  Vindobonensis  Gr.  5,  cum  mi- 
niaturis  saec.  VI.  —  Palaeogr.  Soc.  t.  177.  cet. 

Homeri  Ilias.  Codex  Ambrosianus  F.  205.  Inf.,  cum 
miniaturis  saec.  V.  —  Palaeogr.  Society  t.  39,  40,  50,  51. 

Plato.  Codex  Oxoniensis  Bodl.  Clarkianus  39  saec. 
IX  (an.  895).  —  Wattenbach,  Exempla  t.  3.  Palaeogr. 
Society  t.  81. 


Anthologia  Latin  a.  Codex  Salmasianus  Parisinus 
10318  saec.  VII — VIII.  —  Zangemeister,  Exempla  codd. 
Lat.    t.  46. 


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Horatius.  Codex  Bernensis  363  saec.  IX.  —  Chate- 
lain,    Paldographie    d.    class.    Lat.    t.    76,    77. 

Livius.  Codex  Corbeiensis  (Puteaneus)  Parisinus  5730 
saec.  V— VI.  —  Zangemeister,  Exempla  t.  19.  Palaeogr. 
Society   t.  31,   32.   Chatelain,   t.    116.   cet. 

Lucretius.  Codex  Vossianus  Oblongus  Leidensis 
Voss.   L.    F.   30   saec.    IX.   —   Chatelain,   t.   56,   57. 

Tacitus.  Codices  Medicei  Laurentiani  68,  1—2  saec. 
IX.  —  Collezione  Fiorent.  t.  2  et  14.  Palaeogr.  Society  t. 
II.   90.   cet. 

Virgin  us.  Codex  Mediceus  Laurentianus  39,1  saec. 
V.  —  Zangemeister,  Exempla  t.  10.  Palaeogr.  Society  t. 
86.   Chatelain,   t.  66,    I.   cet. 

31)  This   circular   was  accompanied   by  a  letter   from  the  pu- 
blisher,   saying: 


w* 


LEYDEN,  April  1896. 


Sir. 


When  it  seemed  certain,  last  year,  that  the  scheme 
for  bringing  out  reproductions  of  the  most  important  ancient 
Manuscripts  could  not  be  carried  out,  much  disappointment 
was   felt  in   the   scholastic   world. 

I  have  now  the  pleasure  of  informing  you  that  I  intend 
publishing  a  series  of  such  reproductions  of  twelve  of 
the  most  ancient  known  MSS.,  of  which  I  subjoin  a  list. 

Dr.  W.  N.  du  Rieu,  Director  of  the  Library  of  our 
University,  whose  indefatigable  efforts  show  how  much 
he  has  the  enterprise  at  heart,  has  expressed  himself  ready 
to   undertake   the   responsible   post   of   Editor. 

I  need  not  here  dwell  on  the  various  risks  to  which 
the  original  MSS.  are  exposed;  at  any  moment  irreparable 
disaster,  notwithstanding  the  best  precautions  of  the  Direc- 
tors, might  ^deprive  us  of  them.  For  many  years  the  desi- 
rability of  having  accurate  copies  of  rare  and  precious 
MSS.  has  been  generally  recognised  by  men  of  learning. 
I  believe  therefore  that  I  shall  be  rendering  a  real  service 


.  .^jfe'TI'tZl^! 


■■"-h^-' — ■■■■^- 


/  *.    fl: 


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to  letters,  and  that  I  imay  reckon  on  the  support  and  appro- 
bation of  scholars. 

As  it  was  chiefly  on  financial  grounds  that  the  original 
proposal  was  wrecked,  I  will  not  ask  the  Curators  of 
Libraries  and  Bibliophiles  to  subscribe  for  the  whole  series. 
I  trust  that  the  execution  of  the  work  and  the  moderate 
price  may  prove  an  inducement  to  acquire  these  various 
works 

I  have  already  made  such  progress  in  preparing  a  repro- 
duction of  the  famous  manuscript 


VETUS    TESTAMENTUM    GRAECE 
Codex      Sar  ra  vianus-Colb  er  t  i  nu  s      S  a  e  c.      V, 


of  which  260  pages  are  at  Leyden,  44  in  Paris  and  2  at 
Saint-Petersburg,  that  I  can  promise  the  almost  immediate 
publication  of  this  volume  with  the  addition  of  a  preface 
by  Monsieur  Omont,  Conservateur  de  la  Biblioth^que  Na- 
tionale  at  Paris.  I  take  the  liberty  to  enclose  a  double 
page  as  a  specimen  to  enable  you  to  judge  of  the 
size  and  execution  of  the  work. 

This  work,  bound  in  mediaeval  style,  will  be  offered  at 
the  price  of   &  8.0.0. 

As  the  number  of  copies  cannot,  for  obvious  reasons, 
be  very  great,  it  is  not  impossible  that  the  price  may  be 
considerably  raised  after  publication. 

It  is  not  my  intention  to  adhere  to  the  order  of  publica- 
tion given  in  the  following  list.  I  reserve  the  right  of 
selecting  other  Manuscripts  if  circumstances  should  make 
it  desirable. 

And  so,  commending  the  undertaking  to  your  favou- 
rable  consideration  and   energetic   support, 


I   remain, 


Yours  obediently, 

A.  W.  SIJTHOFF. 


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33)  The  printing  of  the  phototypes  of  the  codex  Sarravianus  and 
of  the  Latin  introduction  by  Mr.  H.  Omont  happened  to  suffer 
some  delay   so  that  only  in  the  month  of  December  1896  Mr.  du 
Rieu  could  write  his  signature  on  the  last  page.  Alas !  this  was 
the  last  work  that   he  was  able  to   do  for  this  enterprise.   The 
21st  Dec.  of  this  year  he  was  seemingly  well  and  strong,  but 
he  died  in  the  midst  of  his  diligent  labours.  He  was  not  able  to 
have  the  pleasure  of  seeing  the  first  product  of  his  unfailing  and 
disinterested    work    appear.    Now    it    appeared   in   Jan.    1897    as 
his  „opus  posthumum,"  and  the  writer  of  the  introduction,   Mr. 
Omont,  conservator  of  the  manuscript  department  of  the  Paris 
Biblioth^que  Nationale,  added  to  it  this  dedication: 

„Memoriae  optimi  et  doctissimi  viri  Guilelmi  Nicolai 
Du  Rieu  Bibliothecae  Universitatis  Lugduno-Batavae 
Praefecti  meritissimi  suis  et  amicis  praemature  erepti 
(1829—1896)." 

The  publisher  Sijthoff,  who  had  the  enterprise  of  the  Codices 
very  much  at  heart,  also  suffered  a  great  loss  through  the  death 
of  Dr.  du  Rieu  as  will  clearly  appear  from  what  has  been  said 
above.  Yet  he  did  not  lose  courage,  but  at  once  entered  into  an 
engagement  with  Dr.  Scato  de  Vries,  the  successor  of  Dr.  du 
Rieu  as  Leyden  Hbrarian.  He  had  worked  many  years  under  the 
latter  as  conservator  of  the  manuscripts  at  Leyden  and  knew  the 
whole  history  of  the  enterprise.  He  thought  that  it  was  his  duty 
to  continue  the  work  of  his  predecessor,  who  had  begun  it  with 
so  much  enthusiasm.  He  began  his  work  with  the  preparation 
of  the  reproduction  of  the  Codex  Bernensis  363,  about  which 
the   publisher   wrote   in   a   prospectus   of   the   20th.    xMarch: 

'  '  LEYDEN,  March  20th  1897. 


Sir, 

The  great  task  of  reproducing  by  photography  a  series 
of  twelve  of  the  oldest  and  most  precious  Greek  and  Latin 


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manuscripts,    of    which  I    had   the   honour   to   send   you 

a   prospectus   last    year,  has   so    far   progressed   that    the 

first   volume   was   issued  in   the   month   of  January,    with 
the  title: 


Vetus  Testamentum  Graece.  Codicis 
Sarraviani-Colbertini  quae  supersunt  in  Bibliothecis 
Leidensi,  Parisiensi,  Petropolitana  phototypice  edita. 
Praefatus   est   Henricus   Omont. 

The  limited  number  of  copies,  and  the  orders  I  have 
received  till  this  date,  compel  me  to  raise  the  price  of  this 
volume  to  /  40.-.  For  the  present,  until  the  publication 
of  the  second  volume,  I  am  still  able  to  supply  the  copies 
of  the  first,  bound,  at  that  price;  and  would  urge  you  if 
you  have  not  yet  acquired  the  work,  to  order  it  as  soon 
as  possible. 

We  regret  to  announce  the  sudden  death,  a  few  days 
before  the  pubhcation  of  the  first  volume,  of  the  illustrious 
savant  who  had  originated  the  scheme  and  edited  the  work 
Dn  W.  N.  du  Rieu,  the  director  of  the  University 
Library  at  Leyden.  I  am  greatly  indebted  to  his  admirable 
help  and  disinterested  encouragement,  and  shall  ever  faith- 
fully and  gratefully  honour  his  memory. 

I  derive  some  consolation  in  this  great  loss  from  having 
secured  the  services  of  his  successor  in  the  office,  Dr 
b  G.  de  Vries,  who  is  prepared  to  take  up  the  task 
left  unfmished  by  Dr.  du  Ri  e  u.  Dr.  de  Vries,  having 
been  for  some  years  in  charge  of  the  celebrated  collection 
of  manuscripts  in  the  Leyden  Library,  had  already  colla- 
borated  with  Dr.  du  Rieu  in  his  preparations  for  the 
pubhcation  of  the  work;  thus,  to  my  great  satisfaction,  its 
further  production  is  secured  on  the  same  lines,  and  in 
the  manner  indicated  by  Dr.  d  u  Rieu. 

The  second  volume  of  this  first  series  will  shortly  be 
ready   for   publication,    containing 


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CODEX    BERNENSIS    363 

Horatii  carmina,  —  Ovidii  Met.  fragm.,  —  Servii 

et   aliorum   opera   grammatica,    —   S.   Augustinii 

de    dial,    et    de    rhetor.,    —    Bedae    Hist. 

Brit.   I,  cet.  cet.  continens. 

I  need  not  here  expatiate  on  the  importance  of  this 
manuscript.  It  is  famous  as  the  earhest  and  best  MS.  copy 
of  Horace,  of  Ovid's  fragments  etc.;  it  contains  a 
store  of  mediaeval  learning,  and  is  of  the  highest  value 
as  throwing  light  on  the  learned  efforts  of  Sedulius 
Scot  us  and  his   Irish  contemporaries. 

In  June  1891  Dr.  L.  Traube  wrote  in,  „0  Roma 
nobilis"  p.  56  (A  paper  in  the  transactions  of  the  Bavarian 
Acad,  of  Sciences  CI.  I,  Vol.  XIX,  Part.  II,  p.  352). 

»MS.  Bernensis  363  is  indeed  so  important  in  every 
respect  that  we  fain  would  hope  that  some  learned  body 
may  have  it  reproduced  entire,  by  photography,  and  so 
provide  alike  for  the  preservation  of  this  treasure  and  for 
a  more  general  knowledge  of  its  contents." 

Hence,  when  I  now,  without  the  aid  of  any  learned 
Society,  and  at  my  own  risk,  propose  to  pubhsh  the  w  h  o  1  e 
volume  in  autotype,  I  am  certain  of  doing  a  real  and 
great  service  to  learning,  and  believe  I  may  count  on  your 
approbation  and   support. 

I  have  been  so  happy  as  to  secure  the  assistance  of 
Professor  H.  H  ag  en  of  Bern,  as  the  admirably  competent 
and  learned  writer  of  the  Latin  Preface  which  contributes  in 
no  small  degree  to  the  value  of  this  volume. 

The  Codex  Bernensis  363  will  consist,  besides  the 
preface,  of  394  pages  in  photography,  large  quarto,  pre- 
cisely like  the  specimen  I  have  the  honour  of  submitting 
to   you  herewith. 

The  price  ofthis  volume  is    $  48.—,  bound 
in  mediaeval  style,  delivered  in  Holland, 

3 


_.«S»N 


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a  price  which  may  very  probably  be  raised  after  publication. 
In  the  event  of  your  ordering  a  copy  may  I  beg  you  to 
make  use  of  the  accompanying  order-form. 

At  the  same  time  I  venture  to  point  out  to  you  the 
great  importance  of  this  undertaking.  The  world  is  be- 
ginning to  appreciate  the  fact  that  photographic  reproduc- 
tions of  the  treasures  of  Antiquity  and  of  the  Middle-ages 
are  of  the  highest  value.  Such  possessions  are  no  longer 
the  luxury  of  the  amateur,  they  are  almost  indispensable 
to  the  critical  study  of  palaeography.  Such  reproductions 
aim  st  completely  supply  the  place  of  the  originals,  and 
might  even  replace  them  in  the  event  of  their  being  de- 
stroyed, a  danger  against  which  the  utmost  care  may  fail 
to  preserve  them.  By  these  means  we  at  any  rate  secure 
to  posterity  an  exact  copy  of  what  we  are  so  fortunate  as 
to  possess.  To  make  this  publication  in  every  way  ser- 
viceable to  scientific  students,  each  volume  may  be  pur- 
chased separately;  there  is  no  need  to  subscribe  before- 
hand   to    the    whole    series    of    twelve    Codices. 

For  my  part,  I  have  the  whole  set  in  view ;  and  with  the 
firm  purpose  of  reproducing  all  the  most  famous  and 
precious  manuscripts,  I  hope  for  the  support  of  all  who 
take  an  interest  in  such  matters,  so  that  by  the  happy 
cooperation  of  Learning  with  the  printer's  art  the  work 
may  be  brought  to  such  an  issue  as  shall  not  merely 
satisfy  the  Savants  of  our  own  day,  but  be  of  value  to 
posterity. 

With  regard  to  the  volumes  to  be  subsequently  published, 
of  whicl^  I  giave  a  provisional  list  in  my  last  year's  prospec- 
tus, I  shall  have  the  honour  to  inform  you  later.  It  may 
however  be  stated  at  once  that  some  of  the  manuscripts 
formerly  included  must  be  replaced  by  others,  the  owners 
having  decided  to  reproduce  them  on  their  own  account. 
This  is  the  case,  especially  with  the  Florentine  MS.  of 
Aeschylus,  which  is  to  be  brought  out  under  the  auspi- 
ces of  the  Italian  Minister  of  Education  and  the  superin- 
tendence of  the   Bibliotheca   Laurenziana. 


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On  the  appearance  of  the  second  part  Dr.  de  Vries  com- 
municated in  these  words  that  he,  as  successor  of  Dr.  du  Rieu,  had 
taken    the    direction    of    the    enterprise: 

„Sed  iam  antequam  in  lucem  emissus  est  is  tomus 

[I],  dux  ille  et  conditor  totius  operis  Guilelmus  Nico- 
laus  Du  Rieu,  subita  morte  nobis  est  ereptus  triste 
sui  desiderium  relinquens  omnibus  qui  vastam  eius  erudi- 
tionem  cum  humanitate  summa  coniunctam  admirabantur. 
Cui  virj  egregio  cum  ego  in  administranda  Bibliotheca 
Universitatis  Leidensis  successissem  et  hoc  opus  ab  illo 
inceptum   suscipere   et  persequi  meum  esse  duxi." 

Since  then  the  publication  has  been  regularly  continued  in 
the  manner  already  pointed  out  by  Dr.  du  Rieu,  and  successively 
appeared : 


Tom  III— IV.  Plato.  Codex  Oxoniensis  Clarkianus  39. 
Praefatus   est   T  h  o  m.   W.   A 1 1  e  n. 

Tom.  V.  Plant  us.  Codex  Heidelbergensis  1613.  Palatinus 
C.  Praefatus  est  C  a  r.  Z  a  n  g  e  m  e  i  s  t  e  r. 

Tom.  VI.  Homeri  I  lias.  Codex  Venetus  A,  Marcianus 
454.   Praefatus   est   D  o m.   Comparetti. 

Tom.  VII.  Tacitus.  Codex  Laurentianus  Mediceus  68  1 
et   68  II.    Praefatus   est   Enr.   Rostagno. 

Tom.  VIII.  Terentius.  Codex  Ambrosianus  H.  75  inf. 
Praefatus   est   E.    B  e  t  h  e. 

Tom.  IX.  Aristophanes.  Codex  Ravennas  137,  4,  A. 
Praefatus  est  J.  van  Leeuwen  J.  f. 

Tom.  X.  Dioscurides.  Codex  Aniciae  lulianae  Vindo- 
bonensis  Med.  Or.  1.  Praefati  sunt  Ant.  de  Premerstein, 
Car.    Wessely,    los.    Mantuani. 

Tom.  XI.  Livius.  Codex  Vindobonensis  Lat.  15.  Praefa- 
tus  est  Car.  Wessely. 

Besides,  the  appearance  has  been  announced  of  the  following 
parts,  which  are  all  but  ready : 


f. 


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Lucretius.    Codex   Leidensis   Vossianus   Oblongus. 
I  s  i  d  o  r  u  s.  Etymologiarum  Codex  Matritensis  Toletanus. 
Anthologia    Graeca.    Codex   Palatinus. 

The  following  is  taken  from  the  prospectuses  sent  by  the  pu- 
blisher on  the  appearance  of  each  of  the  parts  III-— XI. 

I  now  have  the  pleasure  of  informing  you  that  Vol.  IV, 
Part   II   of: 

PLATO.  ^ 

•    '  Codex  OxoniensisClarkianus  39  saec. 

IX  (an.  895) 

will  shortly  be  ready. 

The  importance  and  value  of  this  MS.  is  so  universally 
recognised  by  classical  scholars,  that  it  is  scarcely  necessary 
to  commend  this  photographic  reproduction  to  their  notice. 
The  Codex  Clarkianus  is  known  through  the  investigations 
of  S  c  h  a  n  z,  C  o  b  e  t  and  others,  as  one  of  the  finest  and 
most  precious  manuscripts  extant  of  a  Greek  classic.  Not 
only  is  it  of  the  highest  importance  to  the  critical  study 
of  the  text  of  the  great  philosopher;  it  is  no  less  inte- 
resting as  a  palaeographical  document;  and  is  valued  by 
the  Philologist  as  one  of  the  very  few  Greek  manuscripts  of 
so  remote  a  period  that  can  be  dated  with  any  certainty. 

The  reproduction  will  be  prefaced  by  a  copious  intro- 
duction from  the  pen  of  Professor  Thomas  W.  Allen, 
Fellow  of  Queen's  College,  Oxford,  a  writer  eminent  for 
learning   in   Philology   and   Palaeography. 

The  complete  Codex  consists  of  ^  830  pages,  and  will 
be  brought  out  in  two  nearly  equal  parts.  To  enable  you 
to  judge  of  the  size  and  style  of  workmanship  I  beg  to 
inclose  a  specimen-page  in  a  size  of  38  X  42  cm. 

Each  volume,  complete  and  bound  alike,  will  be  offered 
at  the  price  of   £  10.0.0. 

In  the  event  of  your  writing  to  order  a  copy  I  would 
beg  you  to  use  the  accompanying  form.  The  Codex  Plato 


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will  be  forwarded  in  due  course  to  the  subscribers  to 
the  whole  series. 

Since  the  publication  of  the  Codex  Plato  I  have 
proceeded  uninterruptedly  with  the  preparation  of  other 
reproductions;  and  I  take  the  liberty  of  reporting  to  you 
on  the  progress  of  the  undertaking. 

In  the  first  place  I  beg  to  announce  the  forthcoming 
Volume  V: 

PLAUTUS. 
Codex    Heidelbergensis    1613    Palatinus    C. 

The  very  great  value  of  this  ,,Codex  Decurtatus" 
is  so  universally  recognised  that  few  words  are  needed 
to  commend  the  reproduction  to  your  notice.  This  Codex, 
in  fact,  ranks  next  in  importance  to  the  Codex  Ambrosia- 
nus,  made  accessible  by  Studemund's  Apogra- 
ph u  m,  and  the  Codex  Vetus  (Palatinus  B),  which  we 
may  hope  to  see  reproduced  ere  long  by  the  custodians 
of  the  Vatican  Library.  And  when  these  have  been  made 
public  property  of  the  learned  throughout  the  world,  by 
accurate  reproductions,  they  —  with  the  facsimiles  pu- 
blished by  Prof.  Lindsay  in  his  book  ,,The  Codex 
Turnebi  of  Plautus"  —  will  constitute  such  a  body  of 
material  for  the  critical  study  of  Plautus  as  hardly  exists 
for  any  other  classical  author. 

An  introduction  in  Latin  will  be  prefixed  to  the  repro- 
duction from  the  pen  of  the  Chief  Librarian  at  Heidel- 
berg, Prof.  Zangemeister,  whose  well-known  name 
is  a  guarantee  for  the  value  of  his  contribution. 

You  are  aware  that  I  not  long  since  brought  out  the 
fifth  v61ume  of  my  collection  of  ,,Co dices  photo- 
graphici  depict i":  a  faithful  reproduction  by  pho- 
tography of  the  ,,Codex  Decurtatus"  (Heidelbergen- 
sis 1613  Palatinus  C)  of  PLAUTUS. 

I  now  have  the  pleasure  of  announcing  the  publication 
ere  long  of  the  sixth  volume : 


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HOMERI    ILIAS 
.   Codex  Venetus  A,  Marcianus  454. 

The  importance  of  this  famous  Codex,  no  less  valuable 
for  the  light  it  throws  on  the  Homeric  text  than  for  the 
marginal  notes  and  Scholia,  justifies  me  in  the  hope  that 
I  shall  find  great  encouragement  when  I  place  the  MS. 
within  reach  of  the  learned  world  by  an  accurate  repro- 
duction. 

I  have  obtained  the  requisite  permission  through  the 
personal  good  offices  of  Heer  Dr.  Sc.  de  Vries,  in  com- 
munication with  the  Librarian  of  the  Marziana  Library, 
Venice,  Dr.  S.  Morpurgo,  and  with  his  Excellency 
Signor  B  a  c  c  e  1 1  i.  Minister  of  Public  Instruction,  strongly, 
supported  by  their  Excellencies  M.  de  Beaufort, 
Minister  for  Foreign  Affairs,  and  the  Ambassador  from 
the  Netherlands  at  Rome,  to  all  of  whom  I  tender  my 
respectful    thanks. 

The  great  Italian  savant  Dom.  Comparetti  has 
done  me  the  honour  of  writing  a  Latin  preface  to  this 
volume,  thus  enhancing  its  scientific  value  in  no  small 
degree.  The  printing  of  the  preface,  as  well  as  of  the 
plates,  is  so  far  advanced  that  the  publication  may  be 
promised  for  January  1901.  The  style  will  correspond  with 
that  of  the  former  volumes;  the  size  of  the  page  being 
54  X  36  cm.  I  shall  be  happy  to  forward  a  specimen  on 
application,   free  of   charge. 

In  my  former  circular,  announcing  the  publication  of 
Codex  Venetus  A,  Marcianus  454,  HOMERI 
ILIAS,  I  had  the  pleasure  of  informing  you  that  the 
photographic  negatives  were  already  prepared  of  the 
Codices    Laurentiani    Medicei    681    et    68  II. 

I  am  now  able  to  promise  the  immediate  publication  of 
Vol    VII  of  this  important  series: 

Pars   I.     TACITUS   Codex  Laurentianus   Mediceus  68   I 
Pars   II.   TACITUS   Codex  Laurentianus   Mediceus  68   II 


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These  celebrated  Medicean  MSS.,  the  recognised  autho- 
rity for  TACITUS  Annales  et  Historia,  are  of  such 
high  value  to  critical  students  of  ancient  texts  that  it  is 
unnecessary  to  insist  on  the  importance  of  this  repro- 
duction. I  "may  congratulate  myself  on  being  able  to  include 
so  remarkable  a  work  in  this  series,  and  to  announce 
at  the  same  time  that  its  value  will  be  enhanced  by  an 
Introduction  in  Latin  from  the  pen  of  Prof.  Enrico  Ros- 
tagno,  the  distinguished  Curator  of  the  Laurentian  Library, 
already  finished  for  Part  I  and  to  be  written,  I  hope,  for 
Part   II:  Cod.   Med.  68,   I   et  II. 

Since  the  publication,  early  last  year,  of  Part  VII  of 
the  Codices  Graeci  et  Latin i,  a  longer  time  has 
elapsed  than  I  could  have  wished;  but  this  was  unavoi- 
dable and  not  till  now  could  I  announce  the  appearance 
of    Part    VIII: 

TERENTIUS. 
Codex  Ambrosia  n  us  H.  57  inf. 

which  will  be  ready  for  issue  in  the  month  of  March.  The 
cause  of  the  delay  I  wish  to  explain  to  you. 

While  preparing  the  photographic  plates  of  the  illu- 
strated Codex  at  Milan,  I  received  information  that 
the  Directors  of  the  Vatican  Library  intended  to  bring 
out  a  reproduction  of  the  illuminated  MS.  (3868)  of  Teren- 
tius,  which  is  preserved  there.  In  agreement  with  Professor 
B  e  t  h  e  (Basle)  I  decided  to  avail  myself  of  this  singu- 
larly favourable  coincidence,  and  to  produce  a  work  of 
the  highest  value,  not  only  for  the  study  of  the  Ambrosian 
MS.,  but  also  for  that  of  illuminated  copies  of  Terentius, 
in  general. 

To  this  end  a  number  of  photographs  were  made  from 
all  the  known  MSS.  of  Terentius;  including  the  well  known 
Paris  Codex  (7899);  the  two  M.S.S.  in  Leiden  (Voss.  L. 
Q.  38.  and  Lipsii  26);  the  Codex  at  Oxford  (Bodl.  Auct. 
F     2.13;    Bentle's    Codex    Dunelmesis)   hitherto    quite   un- 


^ 


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known  as  to  the  illustrations;  the  Codex  BasiHcanus  (794) 
al  Rome,  and  others.  Some  of  the  most  remarkable  minia- 
tures in  the  famous  Codex  Vaticanus  have  also  been  repro- 
duced,  in  anticipation  of  the   complete  work. 

By  the  aid  of  the  various  reproductions  we  shall  be 
enabled  to  present  the  Codex  Ambrosianus  in  the 
most  complete  and  perfect  manner  by  publishing  from 
other  MSS.  the  plates  which  are  missing  in  the  Ambro- 
sianus. An  introduction  will  also  deal  with  the  whole  series 
of  illustrated  MSS.;  Professor  B  e  t  h  e,  who  is  writing 
the  Latin  Preface  to  this  volume  will  not  restrict  himself 
to  a  discussion  of  the  Codex  Ambrosianus,  but 
will  extend  his  observations  to  a  general  review  of  all 
the  illustrated  MS.  copies  of  T  e  r  e  n  t  i  u  s  known  to  exist, 
and  of  the  contributions  to  our  knowledge  of  the  antique 
stage  which  may  be  derived  from  them.  This  will  give 
the  volume  a  special  and  general  interest  to  students  of 
philology,  palaeography,  archaeology  and  the  history  of 
art.  Opportunity  will  for  the  first  time  be  afforded  for 
following  the  development  of  the  most  famous  group  of  illu- 
minated MSS.  faithfully  reproduced  and  exactly  described. 

Although  in  my  last  circular  I  held  out  the  prospect  of 
the  early  publication  of  the  next  volume  of  this  Series, 
various  circumstances  have  hindered  its  accomplishment. 
It  is  therefore  with  particular  pleasure  that  I  am  now 
able  to  announce  the  issue  of 

ARISTOPHANIS 
CodexRavennas 

to  appear   shortly  as  the  ninth  volume  of  this  well 
known   Series. 

This  M.S.,  with  the  Codex  Venetus,  forms  the  basis 
of  the  text  of  the  Plays  of  Aristophanes,  as  well  as  of 
the  Scholia.  As  much  as  the  Codex  Venetus  this  Codex 
is  worthy  of  being  made  generally  accessible  by  photo- 
graphy   for  the  learned  studies,  more  than  till  now   vvas 


I 


possible  to  very  few  persons,  by  studying  the  original  M.  S. 
itself,    carefully    preserved   at    Ravenna.   About   five   years 
ago  Dr.  S.  G.  De  Vries  himself  went  to  Italy,  to  take 
the    necessary    steps   preliminary   to   reproducing   both   — 
or  at  least  one  of  —  these  M.S.S.  by  photography.  Mean- 
while    the     Archaeological    Institute    of    Ame- 
rica and  the  English  Society  for  the  Promotion 
of   Hellenic    Studies   had   formed  similar  plans   for 
the  reproduction  of  one  of  these  Codices.  These  Societies, 
with   distinguished    liberality,    placed    themselves    in    com- 
munication with  us  to  discuss  the  matter,  and  as  a  result 
it   was  agreed  that   they  conjointly  selected  the  CODEX 
VENETUS,   while  the  CODEX  RAVENNAS  was  to  be 
published  in  my  Series.  The  former  Codex,  as  my  readers 
know,  came  out  last  year.   Unforeseen  circumstances  pre- 
vented  the   publication  of   the   CODEX   RAVENNAS   at 
an   earlier  date.    Now   it  is   with   great   satisfaction   that   I 
an.   able  to  announce  in  the  same  time  that  Dr.  J.  van 
Leeuwen   of   the    Leyden    University,   the   distinguished 
editor  of  the  Aristophanes   with   Commentaries  issued  by 
me,    has    consented    to    write   an   introductory   chapter   in 
Latin  for  this  volume.  Thus,  by  the  co-operation  of  so  many 
persons,   ample  and   perhaps   unsurpassably   complete   ma- 
terial   is   provided   for   the   critical   study   of   Aristophanes. 
The  intention   I   had  of  publishing  the  tenth  volume  of 
the   first   series   during   the   course   of   the   year   1904,   has 
unfortunately  not  been  realised.  Now,  only,  thanks  to  the 
mastering   of   difficulties,    which    the   large    compass,   and 
the   reiiroduction   of  the   beautiful   originals  involved,   has 
it   become   possible   for   me   to   announce   that   the   tenth 
volume    will    very    shortly    appear,    viz. 


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DIOSCURIDES 

Codex  Aniciae  lulianae  picturis  illustratus,  nunc 

Vindobonensis    Med.  Gr.  I. 
Moderante  lOSEPHO  DE  KARABACEK, 

Bibliothecae  Palatinae  Vindobonensis  Praefecto, 

praefati  sunt 
ANTONIUS  DE  PREMERSTEIN,  CAROLUS  WESSELY, 

lOSEPHUS  MANTUANI. 

Accedit  tabula  lithographica. 

The  famous  and  richly-illustrated  ,,D  ioscurides 
Codex"  of  the  Imperial  Vienna  Library,  which  was  pain- 
ted and  written  in  Byzantium  about  the  year  512  A.  D. 
for  the  Imperial  Princess  Anicia  Juliana,  is  the  oldest 
testimony  for  the  text  and  illustrations  of  the  so  called 
alphabetic  Recension  of  the  dioscuridical  Description  of 
Plants,  to  which  also  fragments  of  Crateuas  and  Galenos 
have  been  added,  and  also  for  a  series  of  smaller  wri- 
tings richly  illustrated  with  pictures  of  animals  and  vege- 
tables:  the  so-called  ,, Carmen  de  viribus  herbarum",  and 
four  paraphrases  of  didactic  poems  on  natural  history  of 
Nicander,  Oppian  and  Dionysius.  The  number  of  M.  S.  S. 
derived  from  him  is  extraordinarily  great. 

It  is  however  not  only  from  a  text  critical  standpoint, 
that  this  Codex,  whose  fate  in  the  course  of  ages  was 
extremely  peculiar,  is  of  high  importance.  It  is  above 
all  an  unique  contribution  to  the  History  of  Botany,  partly 
on  account  of  its  hitherto  almost  unknown  pictures  of 
plants,  of  which  a  large  portion  of  the  originals  date 
back  to  the  first  century  B.  C,  and  partly  on  account 
of  the  accumulation  of  botanical  synonym  from  all  the 
ancient  languages  of  the  Mediterranean  basin. 

The  Codex  which  can  be  dated  exactly,  contains  inva- 


luable material  for  Paleographists  who  derive  principally 
their  knowledge  of  Uncial  writing  of  the  beginning  of  the 
sixth   century   from   it. 

The  art-historian  will  be  chiefly  interested  in  the  minia- 
tures on  the  first  pages  of  the  volume  which  are  examples 
of  the  best  antique  tradition  and  which  are  now  for  the 
first  time  reproduced  in  their  actual  size,  besides  he  will 
study  with  pleasure  the  pictures  of  plants,  which  have 
influenced  the  illustrations  of  botanical  works  for  centuries. 

For  students  of  Mediaeval  Greek  and  for  Orientalists, 
the  list  of  low-Greek,  Arabic,  Turkish  and  Persian  plant- 
nomenclature  which  has  been  added  to  the  original  at  a 
later  date,  is  of  the  highest  importance. 

The  plan  of  photo-mechanically  reproducing  this  va- 
luable M.  S.  (already  in  1763  it  had  been  planned  to  repro- 
duce its  illustrations  by  copper-engravings)  was  repeatedly 
considered  about  the  year  1896,  but  only  as  late  as  1904  a 
facsimile  of  the  voluminous  M.  S.  in  perfect  reproduction 
could  be  made,  because  the  efforts  of  Dr.  D  e  V  r  i  e  s 
and  the  kindness  of  the  directors  of  the  Vienna  Library 
had    surmounted   all    external    difficulties. 

The  difficulties  which  the  reader  is  likely  to  encounter 
are  ably  discussed  by  various  specialists  in  the  introduc- 
tion, and  the  publishers  make  use  of  this  occasion  to 
thank  Hofrat  v.  Karabacek  and  his  collaborators  for 
valuable  contributions. 

Dr.  V.  Premerstein  will  treat  of  the  history  and 
exterior  form  of  the  M.  S.  and  of  its  copies;  Prof.  K. 
Wessely  of  the  Palaeography;  Dr.  J.  Mantuani  of 
the  questions  relating  to  the  History  of  Art,  and  Hofrat 
V.   Karabacek  of  the   Oriental   Plant-nomenclature. 

By  virtue  of  this  cooperation  of  the  most  competent 
authors  a  really  monumental  work  has  been  accomplished, 
worthy  of  the  attention  of  all  scholars,  especially  of  Phi- 
lologists, Paleographists,  Art-historians;  and,  above  all,  of 
Historians,    Botanists   and   Zoologists. 

At  the  international  botanical  Exhibition  which  was  held 


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at  Whitsuntide  1905  in  Vienna,  the  original  M.  S.  as  well 
as  the  proofs  of  the  Facsimile  provoked  the  admiration  of 
the  most  competent  visitors. 

In  consequence  of  the  very  great  damage  caused  by  fire 
in  the  Libraries  of  Rome  and  Turin,  the  officials  of  pro 
minent  libraries,  such  as  those  of  Paris  and  Brussels  etc., 
offered  the  precious  M.S.S.  of  their  collections  for  photo- 
graphical  reproduction;  and  the  Governments  concerned 
were  so  kind  as  to  give  their  consent. 

The  Librarian's  Congress  held  at  Chicago  in  the  year 
1895,  recognised  the  preservation  of  rare  M.S.S.  by  means 
of  photographic  reproduction,  as  in  the  highest  degree 
desirable.  This  desire  has  been  in  part  accomplished  by 
my  undertaking,  and  I  point  with  gratitude  to  the  support 
received  from  a  large  portion  of  the  scientific  world.  I 
however  regret  the  fact  that  one  or  two  of  the  libraries 
that  had  promised  yearly  contributions  to  Dr.  Du  Rieu 
have  witheld  them;  and  to  them  I  turh  in  the  first  place 
to  ask  for  support  in  my  efforts,  as  I  think  I  have  proved, 
that  my  efforts  are  approved  by  all  leading  library-officials. 

In  view  of  the  importance  of  like  publications  to  all 
scientists,  I  kindly  but  urgently  beg  of  all  corporations 
such  as  Academies,  Art-  and  Ethnological  Museums,  Li- 
braries, and  all  others  interested  in  the  reproduction  of 
rare  and  important  M.S.S.,  the  only  way  by  which  unica 
can  be  saved  from  unexpected  total  loss,  to  support  my 
undertaking. 

They  can  do  so,  by  subscribing,  if  not  to  the  whole 
series  at  least  to  a  part  thereof,  and  thus  enable  me  to 
continue   my   costly   publications. 

In  consequence  of  unforeseen  circumstances  I  was  unable 
to  publish  in  the  early  part  of  this  year  the  Codex 
Lucretii  Oblongus  as  I  had  originally  intended  to. 
I  now  have  pleasure  in  announcing  that  it  will  appear  in 
the  spring  of  1907. 

In  order  to  avoid  a  prolonged  delay  between  the  pu- 
blication of  vol.  X  and  the  next  one, 


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LIVIUS 

Codex  Vindobonensis  Lat.   15 

praefatus   est 

Carolus   .Wessely 

which  is  in  active  preparation,  will  be  pulished  very  shortly 
afterwards  as  vol.  XI. 

The  high  importance  of  this  Unial-codex  of  the 
5th  century  requires  but  a  passing  mention.  As  the  many 
learned  studies  and  numerous  editions  testify,  vide  Kopi- 
tar,  Madvig,  Vahlen,  Giltbauer,  Heraeus  a.  s.  o.  this  Codex 
forms  the  only  authentic  source  for  the  5th  Decade 
(11.  41—45)  of  Livius'  historical  work.  The  Codex  has 
been  for  many  years  one  of  the  greatest  treasures  of 
the  K.  K.  Hofbibliothek  in  Vienna  and  was  formely  in 
the  possession  „Theuberti  episcopi  de  Dorostat'*  (Wijk- 
bij-Duurstede)  and  afterwards  preserved  in  the  Monastery 
of  Lorsch  (Codex  Laurisharmensis).  In  1531  Frobenius  in 
Basle  published  therefrom,  copied  by  Grynaeus,  the  Editio 
Princeps,  with  a  preface  of  Des.  Erasmus.  This  first  rese- 
arch on  the  Codex  was  followed  by  many  other  studies 
and  the  Manuscript  has  been  critically  examined  by  various 
experts  not  only  with  regard  to  its  text,  but  also  as  the 
basis  of  several  palaeographical  studies.  Hence  its  fame. 
An  exact  reproduction  in  phototypie  wil  be  welcomed  by 
the  many  philologists  and  palaeographists  who  recognise 
its   value   to   them   in   their   researches. 

I  have  to  acknowledge  my  indebtedness  to  Professor 
C  .WESSELY  of  Vienna  for  the  Latin  introduction  to 
this  edition  and  to  put  on  record  the  pleasure  I  feel  in 
being  entrusted  with  the  publication  of  this  result  of  his 
many  years  labour. 

It  is  needless  to  insist  on  the  usefulness  of  those  repro- 
ductions. Scholars  can  use  these  with  the  same  results  as 
if  they  consulted  the  original  Manuscripts.  I  need  only 
refer,  and  that  with  good  reason,  to  the  value  of  the 
reproductions    with    regard    to    the    preservation    of   the 


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irreplacable  originals.  Bad  as  it  was,  the  fire  in  the 
Turin  Library  would  not  have  been  so  disastrous  to  stu- 
dents if  reproductions  of  its  many  priceless  treasures  were 
iu  existence.  The  support  of  learned  Societies  etc.  is  there- 
fore  looked   to    with    confidence. 

The  value  of  reproducing  works  of  this  nature  was 
forcibly  pointed  out  at  the  Chicago  Congress  of  Librarians 
in  1895  and  the  congratulation  of  the  authorities  for  works 
previous  published  by  me  lead  me  to  believe  that  I  shall 
have  the  hearty  support  of  the  learned  classes  in  this 
undertaking. 

The  work  of  photographing  the  originals  is  not  without 
difficulties  as  it  is  impossible  to  remove  them  from  their 
place,  but  I  must  say  that  experts  who  have  seen  some 
early  copies  of  the  work  are  enthusiastic  about  the  exact- 
ness with  which  the  Manuscript  has  been  reproduced. 

The  price  has  been  fixed  as  low  as  possible  in  order 
to  bring  this  Codex  within  the  reach  of  as  many  Libra- 
ries   etc.   as   possible. 

The  edition  is  of  course  limited  and  owing  to  the  very 
heavy  cost  of  reproduction  a  second  edition  cannot  be  expec- 
ted. Learned  Societies  etc.  will  therefore  do  well  to  inscribe 
their  names  without  delay.  On  this  occasion  I  draw  atten- 
tion to  the  fact  that  it  is  not  at  all  necessary  to  subscribe 
for  all  the  different  volumes,  but  that  each  volume  may 
be  purchased  separately. 

It  is  with  a  feeling  of  security  that  I  embarked  upon 
this  enterprise,  counting  on  the  approval  and  support  of 
all  lovers  of  Philology  and  Palaeography.  Their  help  has 
been  generously  given  in  the  past  and  I  look  forward 
with  confidence  to  the  steady  continuation  of  this  series 
of  Codex-reproductions.  I  shall  be  glad  to  hear  from  any 
Academy,  Museum,  Library  etc.  wishing  to  purchase  the 
whole  series  or  single  volumes. 


It  appears  from  the  list  given  here  that  not  all  the  MSS.  men- 
tioned in  the  original  prospectus  of  April  1896  have  been  reprodu- 
ced. Some  were  replaced  by  others.  The  publisher,  indeed,  had, 
in  this  prospectus,  expressly  reserved  to  himself  the  right  to 
do  so. 

Sometimes  it  was  also  necessary  to  choose  another  codex, 
in  the  first  place  because  the  MSS.,  originally  selected,  were 
already  reproduced  under  the  direction  of  the  library  which  pos- 
sessed them,  this  was  the  case  with  the  Aeschylus  Laurentianus, 
the  Ilias  of  the  Ambrosiana,  the  Anthologia  Latina  and  the  Livius 
at  Paris  All  these  have  since  been  published  (in  their  original 
size  or  in  smaller  form)  by  the  different  directions  of  libra- 
ries. Manuscripts  of  great  value  took  their  place  in  the  Leyden 
enterprise;  the  Ilias  cum  schoUis  at  Venice,  the  Ravennas  of 
Aristophanes,  the  Terentius  Ambrosianus  and  the  Vienna  Livius. 

In  addition  to  the  here  mentioned  eleven  parts  of  the  great 
series  of  the  Codices,  a  special  series  of  smaller  supplementary 
parts  began  to  appear  from  the  year  1902.  The  publisher  wrote 
about  these,  among  other  things,  in  a  prospectus  in  Oct.   1902. 

„In  die  grosse  Serie  der  CODICES  GRAECI  ET  LA- 
TINI  photographice  depicti  sind  und  werden 
photographische  Reproductionen  der  aeltesten  und  be- 
deutendsten  Handschriften  klassischer  Autoren  aufgenom- 
men,  Handschriften,  die  so  interessant  sind,  dass  sie  ver- 
dienen,  in  vollstandig  naturgetreuen  Abbildungen  alien  Ge- 
lehrten,  wo  sie  auch  wohnen,  zuganglich  gemacht  zu  wer- 
den und  zugleich  fiir  die  Nachwelt  bewahrt  zu  bleiben, 
selbst  wenn  durch  ungliickliche  Zufalle,  die  ursprling- 
lichen  Manuscripte  beschadigt  wiirden  oder  verloren  gingen. 

Ausser  diesen  umfangreichen  Handschriften  besteht 
jedoch  noch  eine  grosse  Anzahl  anderer,  die  nur  in  Frag- 
menten  erhalten  geblieben  sind,  oder  wovon  allein  Telle 
aus  besonderen  Griinden  in  erster  Linie  Interesse  ver- 
dienen  (z.  B.  wegen  der  eigenartigen  Schrift,  der  Minia- 
turen  etc.  etc.).  Dieselben  wiirden  in  das  Kader  meiner 
grossen  Unternehmung  nicht  passen,  miissen  jedoch  trotz- 


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dem  als  von  der  grossten  Wichtigkeit  fiir  die  wissenschaft- 
lichen  Forschungen  erachtet  werden. 

Derartige  Fragmente,  oder  Telle  von  Handschriften  ver- 
dienen  aus  diesen  Griinden  ebenfalls,  durch  Reproduc- 
tionen,  Gemeingut  der  gelehrten  Welt  zu  werden,  wodurch 
ein  griindliches  Studium  derselben  erst  moglich  gemacht 
wird. 

Um  auch  hiermit  der  Wissenschaft  soweit  wie  moglich 
dienstbar  zu  sein,  habe  ich  nach  reiflicher  Ueberlegung 
mil  Herrn  Dr.  S.  G.  de  Vries  den  Entschluss  gefasst, 
unter  seiner  Leitung  als  Supplement-Teile  der  grossen 
„Codices-Ausgabe",  einige  derartige  Stiicke  reproduciren 
zu  lassen. 

Vorlaufig  sind  dazu  auserwahlt: 

1)  Hieronymi  Chronicorum  codex  Floria- 
censis  uncialis,  wovon  Fragmente  in  den  Biblio- 
theken  in  Leiden,  in  Paris  und  in  der  Vaticana  bewahrt 
werden  (cf.  Alfr.  Schoene,  Die  Weltchronik  des  Eusebius 
in  ihrer  Bearbeitung  durch  Hieronymus,  S.  26  ff.). 

2)  Les  Miniatures  du  Psautier  de  Saint- 
Louis.  Manuscrit  de  Leyde. 

Jeder  Reproduction  soil  eine  aus  der  Feder  eines 
durchaus  befugten  Gelehrten  stammende  Einleitung  voran- 
gehen.  Fiir  die  Hieronymus-Fragmente  durfte  ich  dieselbe 
von  Herrn  Professor  Dr.  Ludwig  Traube  in  Miin- 
chen  bereits  in  Empfang  nehmen. 

Fiir  den  Fall  ich  fiir  dieses  neue  Unternehmen  bei 
dem  gelehrten  Publicum  die  erhoffte  Unterstiitzung  flnde, 
und  dadurch  im  Stande  sein  werde,  dasselbe  fortsetzen 
zu  konnen,  ist  es  meine  Absicht  eine 

NEUE  SERIE  VON  SUPPLEMENTBANDEN 
neben  meiner  grossen  Ausgabe  der  „Codices"  herauszu- 
geben.  Die  vielfachen  Beweise  von  Wertschatzung  mir 
durch  Fachkenner  bezeugt  fiir  mein  grosses  Unterneh- 
men, gibt  mir  das  Vertrauen  unerschrocken  weiter  fort- 
zufahren,  auch  ohne  Aussicht  auf  financielle  Vorteile.  In 
meinen  Bestrebungen  auf  diese  Art  der  Wissenschaft  niitzen 


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zu  konnen,  bin  ich  geme  zu  Opfem  bereit.  Aber  ohne 
die  Unterstiitzung  des  kauffahigen  Publicums  wurde  eine 
derartige  Unternehmung  nicht  moglich  sein.  Ich  gestatte 
mir  desswegen  Ihre  Mitwirkung  bei  diesen  Ausgaben  zu 
erbitten  in  der  angenehmen  Hoffnung,  dass  auch  Sie  be- 
reit gefunden  werden,  mein  Streben  zu  unterstiitzen. 
Jeder  „Supplement-Teir'   wird  apart   abgegeben." 

In    this    series    of    supplementary    parts    have    been    published 
since   Oct.   1902: 

Sup  pi.  I.  Hieronymi  Chronicorum  Codices  Floriacensis  un- 
cialis fragmentae  Leidensia  Parisina,  Vaticana.  Praefa- 
tus   est    L.   Traube. 

Sup  pi.  II.  Les  iMiniatures  du  Psautier  de  Saint-Louis.  Ma- 
nuscrit de  Leyde.  Edition  phototypique.  Preface  de  M. 
H.   Omont. 

Sup  pi.  III.  Der  illustrierte  Latin  size  Aesop  in  der  Hand- 
schrift  des  Ademar.  Codex  Vossianus  Lat.  O.  A.  15.  Fol. 
195 — 205.  Einleitung  und  Beschreibung  von  Dr.  Georg. 
Thiele. 

Sup  pi  IV.  Taciti  Germania  et  D.alogus  de  oratoribus,  Sue- 
tonii  de  viris  illustribus  fragmentum  Codex  Leidensis 
Perizonianus  phototypice  editus.  Praefatus  est  Georgius 
Wissowa. 

Suppl.  I.  Alpertus  Mettensis  de  diversitate  temporum  und 
de  Theodorico  I,  episcopo  Mettensi.  Codex  Hannove- 
ranus  712  A  in  phototypischer  Reproduction.  Einleitung 
von    Dr.   C.   Pijnacker   Hordijk. 

On  the  appearance  of  these  supplementary  parts  the  following 
was    also    said    in    a    prospectus: 

HI.  Juni  1905. — Jetzt  erscheint  als  Supplement  III: 
Der  illustrierte  lateinische  Aesop  in  der 
Handschrift  des  Ademar,  codex  Vossianus  Lat. 
oct.  15  fol.  195—205. 

Diese  im  Anfang  des  XI.  Jahrhunderts  im  Kloster  St. 
£.  4 


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Martial  bei  Limoges  vom  Presbyter  Ademar  von 
Chabanais  geschriebene  Handschrift  ist  fiir  palaeo- 
graphische  und  textkritische  Forschungen  von  grossem 
Werte.  Sie  enthalt  fol.  195  ff.  den  „lateinischen  Aesop", 
der  zu  einem  unter  dem  Namen  Romulus  bekannten  Kom- 
plex  von  lateinischen  Fabelbuchern  gehort,  welche  fur  das 
Fortleben  der  antiken  Fabel  bis  auf  Lafontaine,  von  hervor- 
ragender  kulturgeschichtlicher  Bedeutung  sind. 

Der  Wert  dieser  Fabelsammlung  wird  ganz  besonders 
erhoht  durch  die  beigefiigten  Illustrationen,  hier  zum 
ersten  Male  voUstandig  reproduciert,  welche  uberall  antike 
Traditionen  zeigen  und  fiir  archaologische  Untersuchun- 
gen  grosses  Interesse  haben.  Noch  kiirzlich  wurde  dieses 
an  einem  Beispiel  von  Prof.  B  e  n  n  d  o  r  f  in  Jahreshefte 
d.  dsterreich.  archaolog.  Inst.   Bd.  V.  bewiesen. 

An  die  Fabeln  schliesst  sich  unmittelbar  eine  eng  damit 
verbundene  Sammlung  von  R  e  c  h  e  n  r  a  t  s  e  1  n  von  stark 
humoristischer,  zuweilen  volkstumlicher  Fiirbung,  welche 
bisher  noch  ganz  unbeachtet  geblieben  sind  und  jetzt  voU- 
standig    publiciert,     allgemeines     Interesse    beansprechen 

werden. 

In  der  Einleitung  hat  Herr  Dr.  Thiele  die  Hand- 
schrift sehr  ausfiihrlich  beschrieben  und  die  phototypischen 
Tafeln  nach  jeder  Richtung  hin  erklart.  Somit  wurde  diese 
PubUcation  von  hoher  Bedeutung  sowol  fiir  philologische 
und  archaologische  als  auch  fiir  kulturgeschichtliche  Stu- 

dien. 

IV.  Juli  1907.  —  Im  Jahre  1902  wurde  fur  das  Studium  der 
Textkritik  der  A  n  n  a  1  e  s  und  H  i  s  t  o  r  i  a  e  des  TACITUS 
gesorgt,  durch  die  phototypische  Reproduction  der  beiden 
beriihmten  Florentiner  Handschriften.  Jetzt  habe  ich  mich 
entschlossen,  in  derselben  Weise  auch  die  kleineren  Schrif- 
ten  des  TACITUS  erscheinen  zu  lassen,  namentlich  die 
Ger mania  und  den  Dialogus  de  oratoribus 
welche  zusammen  mit  SUETONII  fragmentum  de 
viris  illustribus  in  verschiedenen  Abschriften  liber- 
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Ich  bin  nun  heute  im  Stande  das  Erscheinen  einer 
phototypischen  Reproduction  des  bekannten  Codex  Lei- 
densis  Perizonianus  Q.  21,  welcher  unter  jenen  Ab- 
schriften eine  ganz  hervorragende  Stellung  einnimmt  und 
In  vielen  Beziehungen  iiberaus  wichtig  ist,  ankiindigen  zu 
konnen. 

Noch  kiirzHch  (1905)  hat  Herr  Prof.  Wis  sow  a  ge- 
zeigt,  wie  mit  der  erstmaligen  Beniitzung  dieser  Hand- 
schrift durch  L.  T  r  o  s  s  (1841)  eine  neue  Epoche  fiir 
die  Textkritik  jener  Schriften  beginnt.  Und  nicht  nur  fiir 
die  Textkritik  ist  dieser  Codex  von  hoher  Bedeutung.  Er 
bildet  auch  das  Fundament  fiir  die  Feststellung  der  Ueber- 
lieferungsgeschichte,  durch  seine  Randnotizen  von  J  o  v  i  a- 
nus  Pontanus  herriihrend,  die  liber  die  Auffindung 
des  Archetypus  unserer  Handschriften  durch  E  n  o  c  h  e 
von   A  s  c  o  1  i   Aufklarung  geben. 

In  palaeographischer  Hinsicht  ist  der  Codex  Peri- 
zonianus interessant,  als  Specimen  einer  von  den 
italienischen  Humanisten  nach  alten  Mustern  nachgeahmten 
antiquarischen  Schrift,  welche  noch  wenig  bekannt  wurde. 
Eine  ganz  ahnliche  Schrift  findet  sich  in  dem  durch 
Baehrens  u.  A.  bekannt  gemachten  Wolfenblitteler 
Tibull-Codex,  aus  dem  ich  eine  Seite  in  phototypischer 
Reproduction  meiner  jetzigen  PubUcation  beifligen  durfte. 

Eine  ausflihrliche  lateinische  Einleitung  fiir  die  voll- 
standige  Reproduction  des  Codex  Perizonianus  hat 
Herr  Prof.  G.  W  i  s  s  o  w  a  glitigst  verfasst,  wodurch  der 
Wert  meiner  PubUcation  in  hohem  Masse  vermehrt  wurde. 
Den  Tacitus-Forschem  wird  sie  doppelt  willkommen  sein, 
weij  darin  zum  ersten  Male  das  Resultat  eines  genauen 
Studiums  der  vor  Kurzem  in  I  e  s  i  neuaufgef undenen 
Handschrift  verwertet  ist. 

V.  Marz  1908.  —  Die  Kronik  von  ALPERTUS  METTEN- 
SIS  unter  dem  Titel  ,,De  diversitate  Temporum", 
nach  den  Anweisungen  die  der  Autor  selbst  darliber  gibt, 
ist  von  grossem  Interesse  fiir  die  Geschichte  der  Nieder- 
lande  im  Mittelalter.  ,    . 


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Sie  ist  nicht  allein  die  alteste  der  Kroniken  aus  dem 
Mittelalter,  die  auf  uns  gekommen  sind  und  in  den  Nieder- 
landen  zusammengestellt  wurden,  sondern  sie  enthalt  wich- 
tige  historische  Mitteilungen,  sowohl  iiber  die  politischen 
Zustande  in  der  Gegend  von  Nymwegen  und  Emmerich, 
als  uberhaupt  uber  das  spatere  Gelderland;  femer  iiber 
Utrecht  und  seine  Bischofe  aus  dem  Anfang  des  11«"  Jahr- 
hunderts,  iiber  die  alteste  Geschichte  Hollands,  uber  die 
letzten  Einfalle  der  Normannen,  iiber  die  Grafengeschlech- 
ter  die  ungefahr  urn  das  Jahr  1000  in  diesen  Gegenden 
in  den  Vordergrund  traten  und  zum  Teil  zu  Grunde  gmgen. 

Diese  Handschrift,  welche  in  der  Konigl.  Bibliothek 
it  Hannover  aufbewahrt  wird,  aus  dem  lien  Jahrhundert 
stammend,  die  hier  in  getreuer  Reproduction  vorliegt,  hat 
auch  einen  hohen  palaeographischen  Wert,  und  ist  dess- 
halb  besonders  interessant  fur  alle  Philologen  und  Histo- 
riker,  die  dem  Studium  der  mittelalterlichen  Palaographie 

obliegen. 

Aus  diesen  Griinden  is  die  Reproduction  dieser  be- 
riihmten  Handschrift  vom  hochsten  Interesse  sowohl  vom 
Standpunkte  der  deutschen  Geschichtsforscher  als  Palao- 
graphen,  denn  alle  die  oben  genannten  Landesstriche  ge- 
horten,  wie  allbekannt,  damals  zum  deutschen  Kaiserreiche. 

Ausserdem  weisen  wir  noch  darauf,  dass  diese  Repro- 
duction auch  darum  wichtig  ist,  weil  die  existirende  klemere 
Ausgabe  der  Kronik  von  Dederich  (1859)  -  ganz  anders 
als  die  fiir  Privatgelehrte  nur  schwer  zugangliche  in  den 
Monumenta  Germaniae  historica  —  an  Zuver- 
lassigkeit   viel   zu  wiinschen  iibrig  lasst   und  zudem   sehr 

veraltet  zu  nennen  ist. 

Eine  ausfuhrliche  Einleitung  fiir  die  vollstandige  Repro- 
duction des  Alpertus  hat  Herr  Dr.  Pijnacker  H  o  r- 
dijk  gutigst  verfasst,  wodurch  der  Wert  dieser  Publica- 
tion in  hohem  Masse  vermehrt  wurde." 

The  difference  between  these  Supplements  and  the  larger  Codi- 
ces consists  chiefly  in  that  the  introductions  to  the  first  series  are 


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generally  shorter  and  need  not  be  written  in  Latin.  The  writers 
are  free  to  use  their  own  language  or  to  choose  the  language 
which   seems   the   most   desirable   for   each   part. 

More  supplementary  parts  are  in  preparation.   It  will  soon  be 
possible    to    make    further   announcements    concerning    them. 


Besides  these  two  series  of  the  „Codices"  and  the  Supplement- 
ary parts  there  was  begun  an  other  reproduction  of  great  mag- 
nitude, which,  it  is  true,  does  not  exactly  belong  to  this  enter- 
prise, but  yet  is  connected  with  it  and,  in  a  sense,  originated 
from  it;  at  least  it  would  never  have  been  brought  about  but 
for  the   Leyden  enterprise. 

When,  namely,  the  negotiations  concerning  the  permission  for 
the  reproduction  of  the  Homer-Codex  (Tom.  VI)  were  being 
carried  on  at  Venice,  the  librarian  there,  Mr.  S.  Morpurgo,  decla- 
red that  he  was  not  unwilling  to  collaborate,  iDUt  that  he,  on 
his  part,  wanted  to  avail  himself  of  this  opportunity  to  enter  into 
relations  with  the  Dutch  publisher.  He  wanted  to  obtain  from 
the  latter  what  he  had  as  yet  been  unable  to  obtain  from  Italian 
publishers.  The  execution  of  his  long-cherished  plan  of  reproducing 
in  the  full  splendour  of  their  colours  the  deUghtful  miniatures 
of  the  Breviarium  Grimani,  one  of  the  greatest  treasures  of 
the  library  of  S.  Marco  and  one  of  the  most  famous  illumina- 
ted MSS.  of  the  Flemish  school,  had  still  been  prevented  by 
the  enormous  expense  connected  with  such  a  publication.  NoW 
this  seemed  to  him  a   good  opportunity  of  gaining   the   Leyden 

publisher  to   his   plan. 

The  latter  was  not  deterred  by  the  great  expense,  but  he 
would  not  form  a  resolution  before  making  sure  that  it  would  be 
possible  to  produce,  by  means  of  colour-photography,  facsimiles 
that  could  satisfy  the  highest  requirements.  He  applied  to  the 
well-known  art  institute  of  Mr.  Alb.  Frisch  at  Berlin,  who  had 
already  been  highly  successful  in  this  regard.  When,  after  nume- 
rous experiments  the  latter  had  proved  to  be  able  to  produce 
something  excellent,  it  was  decided  that,  under  the  joint  direction 
of   Messrs.   Morpurgo  and   de   Vries,   the   whole  of  the   extensive 


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Sie  ist  nicht  allein  die  alteste  der  Kroniken  aus  dem 
Mittelalter,  die  auf  uns  gekommen  sind  und  in  den  Nieder- 
landen  zusammengestellt  wurden,  sondern  sie  enthalt  wich- 
tige  historische  Mitteilungen,  sowohl  uber  die  politischen 
Zustande  in  der  Gegend  von  Nymwegen  und  Emmerich, 
als  iiberhaupt  uber  das  spatere  Gelderland;  femer  uber 
Utrecht  und  seine  Bischofe  aus  dem  Anfang  des  11«°  Jahr- 
hunderts,  iiber  die  alteste  Geschichte  Hollands,  uber  die 
letzten  Einfalle  der  Normannen,  uber  die  Grafengeschlech- 
ter.  die  ungefahr  urn  das  Jahr  1000  in  diesen  Gegenden 
in  den  Vordergrund  traten  und  zum  Teil  zu  Grunde  gingen. 

Diese  Handschrift,  welche  in  der  Konigl.  Bibliothek 
it  Hannover  aufbewahrt  wird,  aus  dem  lien  Jahrhundert 
stammend,  die  hier  in  getreuer  Reproduction  vorliegt,  hat 
auch  einen  hohen  palaeographischen  Wert,  und  ist  dess- 
halb  besonders  interessant  fur  alle  Philologen  und  Histo- 
riker,  die  dem  Studium  der  mittelalterlichen  Palaographie 

obliegen. 

Aus  diesen  Grunden  is  die  Reproduction  dieser  be- 
riihmten  Handschrift  vom  hochsten  Interesse  sowohl  vom 
Standpunkte  der  deutschen  Geschichtsforscher  als  Palao- 
graphen,  denn  alle  die  oben  genannten  Landesstriche  ge- 
horten,  wie  allbekannt,  damals  zum  deutschen  Kaiserreiche. 

Ausserdem  weisen  wir  noch  darauf,  dass  diese  Repro- 
duction auch  darum  wichtig  ist,  weil  die  existirende  kleinere 
Ausgabe  der  Kronik  von  Dederich  (1859)  —  ganz  anders 
als  die  fur  Privatgelehrte  nur  schwer  zugangliche  in  den 
Monumenta  Germaniae  historica  —  an  Zuver- 
liissigkeit  viel  zu  wiinschen  ubrig  lasst  und  zudem  sehr 
veraltet  zu  nennen  ist. 

Eine  ausfiihrliche  Einleitung  fiir  die  vollstandige  Repro- 
duction des  Alpertus  hat  Herr  Dr.  Pijnacker  H  o  r- 
dijk  gutigst  verfasst,  wodurch  der  Were  dieser  Publica- 
tion in  hohem  Masse  vermehrt  wurde." 

The  difference  between  these  Supplements  and  the  larger  Codi- 
ces consists  chiefly  in  that  the  introductions  to  the  first  series  are 


generally  shorter  and  need  not  be  written  in  Latin.  The  writers 
are  free  to  use  their  own  language  or  to  choose  the  language 
which   seems   the   most   desirable   for   each   part. 

More  supplementary  parts  are  in  preparation.   It  will  soon  be 
possible    to    make    further   announcements    concerning    them. 


Besides  these  two  series  of  the  „Codices"  and  the  Supplement- 
ary parts  there  was  begun  an  other  reproduction  of  great  mag- 
nitude, which,  it  is  true,  does  not  exactly  belong  to  this  enter- 
prise, but  yet  is  connected  with  it  and,  in  a  sense,  originated 
from  it;  at  least  it  would  never  have  been  brought  about  but 
for  the   Leyden  enterprise. 

When,  namely,  the  negotiations  concerning  the  permission  for 
the  reproduction  of  the  Homer-Codex  (Tom.  VI)  were  being 
carried  on  at  Venice,  the  librarian  there,  Mr.  S.  Morpurgo,  decla- 
red that  he  was  not  unwilling  to  collaborate,  "but  that  he,  on 
his  part,  wanted  to  avail  himself  of  this  opportunity  to  enter  into 
relations  with  the  Dutch  publisher.  He  wanted  to  obtain  from 
the  latter  what  he  had  as  yet  been  unable  to  obtain  from  Italian 
publishers.  The  execution  of  his  long-cherished  plan  of  reproducing 
in  the  full  splendour  of  their  colours  the  delightful  miniatures 
of  the  Breviarium  Grimani,  one  of  the  greatest  treasures  of 
the  library  of  S.  Marco  and  one  of  the  most  famous  illumina- 
ted MSS.  of  the  Flemish  school,  had  still  been  prevented  by 
the  enormous  expense  connected  with  such  a  publication.  NoW 
this  seemed  to  him  a  good  opportunity  of  gaining  the   Leyden 

publisher  to   his   plan. 

The  latter  was  not  deterred  by  the  great  expense,  but  he 
would  not  form  a  resolution  before  making  sure  that  it  would  be 
possible  to  produce,  by  means  of  colour-photography,  facsimiles 
that  could  satisfy  the  highest  requirements.  He  applied  to  the 
well-known  art  institute  of  Mr.  Alb.  Frisch  at  Berlin,  who  had 
already  been  highly  successful  in  this  regard.  When,  after  nume- 
rous experiments  the  latter  had  proved  to  be  able  to  produce 
something  excellent,  it  was  decided  that,  under  the  joint  direction 
of  Messrs.   Morpurgo  and  de  Vries,  the  whole  of  the  extensive 


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manuscript  should  be  published  in  phototype,  but  that  all  the 
miniatures  and  the  most  remarkable  marginal  embellishments 
should   be    reproduced   by   a   photo-mechanical    process. 

Of  this  magnificent  work,  which  will  be  complete  in  twelve 
parts,  as  many  as  ten  parts  have  already  appeared  since  1904. 
A  detailed  introduction  was  to  have  been  written  for  it  by 
Mr.  Morpurgo.  However,  he  was  transferred  from  Venice  to 
Florence,  and  in  his  place  Dr.  Giulio  Coggiola,  sub-librarian 
of  the  library  of  S.  Marco,  has  charged  himself  with  the  task  of 
writing  this  introduction. 


III. 


Now  that  so  much  has  appeared  which  was  promised  in  the 
year  1896  and  the  future  appearance  of  different  other  reprodu- 
tions  is  sure,  the  moment  seems  good  to  take  a  survey  of  all 
that  has  been  accomplished  since  the  first  circular  of  April  1896. 

In  doing  this  the  publisher  wants  to  acknowledge  that  be 
has  reason  for  great  satisfaction  and  thankfulness.  He  is  rejoiced 
at  the  work  already  done,  is  assured  of  the  excellency  and  the 
beautiful  appearance  of  his  publications,  and  has  received  nume- 
rous proofs  of  sympathy  and  appreciation  from  many  highly 
esteemed  experts.  That  disappointments  have  been  met  with  is 
almost  a  matter  of  course,  but  they  have  rarely  given  the  pu- 
blisher reason  for  complaint.  It  it  is  true  that  the  sale  of  the  parts 
already  appeared  often  remained  far  beneath  his  expectation, 
and  also  beneath  the  estimate  of  Mr.  du  Rieu,  who  was  known 
to  be  a  very  prudent  and  modest  man.  It  often  proved  to  be  diffi- 
cult even  to  get  some  indemnification  for  the  expenses  caused 
by  the  printing  of  some  part.  But  of  this  the  publisher  has  never 
complained,  nor  will  he  ever  complain.  He  has  always  had  in 
view  the  great  service  which  he  beheved  himself  able  to  render 
to  science,  by  executing  the  praiseworthy  plans  of  Dr.  du  Rieu 


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at  a  time  when  they  seemed  to  have  to  be  all  but  given  up.  He 
was  perfectly  aware  that  such  an  enterprise,  regarded  only  from 
a  financial  point  of  view,  could  jiot  have  been  justified,  and 
pecuniary  gain  could  never  be  his  aim  in  this  matter.  He  will 
declare  himself  perfectly  satisfied  if  he  can  bring  about  these 
beautiful  and  useful  publications  without  suffering  too  great  a 
loss  by  them.  Properly  speaking,  the  only  real  disappointment 
was  caused  by  many  public  libraries  in  America  which  are 
known  to  be  rich.  For  the  reproductions  of  MSS.  were  in  the 
first  place  destined  for  those  libraries,  which,  however  well  pro- 
vided in  other  respects,  are  very  poor  in  ancient  MSS.  and  are 
bound  to  remain  so.  And  after  all  that  had  been  said  and  written 
at  the  Congress  of  Librarians  at  Chicago  in  1893,  it  seemed  not 
too  unreasonable  to  expect  that  in  America,  of  all  countries, 
many  purchasers  of  the  ,, Codices"  would  be  found.  This,  however, 
has  proved  not  to  be  the  case.  Pitiably  small  is  the  number 
of  copies  of  each  part  which  is  supplied  to  American  buyers,* 
so  small  indeed,  that  it  would  really  have  become  impossible 
to  continue  the  enterprise,  if  this  ill-success  had  not  been  counter- 
balanced by  some  support  from  an  other  quarter,  especially  from 
the  German  University-libraries.  Together  with  the  many  favou- 
rable, sometimes  even  flattering,  criticisms  which  appeared  in 
periodicals  or  were  sent  to  the  publisher  privatim,  there  were 
often  heard  complaints,  expressed  in  a  more  or  less  friendly 
manner,  not  with  regard  to  the  intrinsic  value  of  the  publications, 
but  concerning  the  high  price  of  them.  Sometimes  it  was  said 
that  it  was  a  pity  that  the  matter  had  not  been  taken  in  hand 
by  the  Librarians  themselves,  according  to  the  original  plan  of 
Messrs.  Hartwig  and  du  Rieu;  for  then  the  same  things  could 
have  been  had  at  a  much  lower  price.  However,  those  who  reason 
thus,  misjudge  the  real  nature  of  the  enterprise  and  the  correct- 
ness of  the  computations  of  Dr.  du  Rieu.  He  had,  it  is  true, 
declared  himself  ready  to  let  the  subscribers  have,  every  year, 
the  reproduction  of  a  MS.,  for  a  fixed  yearly  contribution  of,  say, 
100  Marks;  but  he  never  meant,  or  could  mean,  that  he  would 
supply,  for  this  sum,  all  that  has  now  appeared  in  this  enterprise. 
As  a  matter  of  course  the  subscribers  would  not  have  received 


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more  man  couid  be  produced  for  their  contrfbutions,  after  deduc- 
tion of   various   necessary   expenses   for   administration   etc.  ^) 

And  now  everyone  who  is  in  any  way  acquainted  with  such 
things  will  be  sure  to  see  that,  for  100  M.  a  year  and  with  ^ 
small  number  of  subscribers,  this  could  certainly  not  have  been 
very  much;  at  any  rate  it  would  have  been  considerably  less 
than  the  eleven  parts  of  the  ,, Codices"  and  five  Supplementary 
parts   that   have   now   appeared. 

Those  who  have  supported  this  enterprise  by  subscribing 
to  the  whole  series  and  have  helped  to  make  it  possible, 
must  surely  perceive  that  they  have  received  value  for  their 
money,  and  that  they  have  not  paid  more  in  proportion  than 
would  have  been  necessary  in  other  circumstances. 

The  effort  of  the  pubHsher  has  always  been,  not  to  make 
the  prices  higher  than  was  necessary  to  guard  against 
too  great  a  loss.  There  are  also  different  parts,  among  those 
which  have  appeared,  which  are  really  very  cheap,  and  which,  pro- 
duced by  the  Ubrarians  themselves,  could  not  have  been  pubUshed 
cheaper.  If,  on  the  other  hand,  some  other  parts  have  been 
dearer,  this  was  owing  to  different  circumstances,  and  the  case 
would    have    been    the    same    with    other    people. 

In  the  first  place  these  circumstances  are  to  be  found  in  the 
different  conditions  made  by  the  different  directions  of  libraries, 
in  regard  to  the  requests  for  permission  to  reproduce  one  of  their 
manuscripts  The  conditions  are  very  different  in  the  different 
countries;  in  some  very  fair  and  easy  to  fulfil,  in  others  very 
difficult  and  unsuitable,  and  in  some  they  could  not  possibly  be 
complied  with. 

Sometimes  one  went  even  so  far  as  to  refuse  the  permission; 
partly  from  a  certain  feeling  of  national  pride,  which  would  not 
allow  foreigners  to  bring  about  what  one  could  do  oneself,  partly 
from  some  incomprehensible  fear  that  the  value  of  the  originals 
would  diminish  if  reproductions  could  be  bought,  or  that  fewer 


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foreigners  would  come  to  towns  which,  by  their  possession  of 
ancient    MSS.,    now   attracted    many    foreign    scholars. 

Many  obstacles  were  thrown  in  the  way  of  the  enterprise  in  the 
very  country  which  is  so  rich  in  the  most  precious  old  manuscripts, 
Italy.  Directly  after  the  first  circular  of  April  1896  had  been 
sent,  the  director  of  the  Laurentian  Library  at  Florence,  which 
had  been  thought  of  in  the  first  place,  wrote  a  letter  (May  8th. 
1896)   which   gave   little    hope    for   the   future. 

In  this  letter  (printed  in  the  Bollettino  delle  pubblicazioni  italiane 
No.  249  of  May  15th  1896  p.  XXX\0  he  said  that  the  Florentine 
Aeschylus-codex,  mentioned  in  Dr.  du  Rieu's  circular,  should 
not  be  allowed  to  be  reproduced  by  him,  because  the  reproduction 
had  already  been  begun  by  the  library  itself,  (at  the  expense  of  the 
Italian  Ministry  for  public  instruction),  and  was  almost  finished: 
a  fact  which  of  course,  Mr.  du  Rieu  did  not  know  when  making 
his  plans.  This  letter  also  stated  that  permission  for  the  reproduc- 
tion of  other  Laurentian  MSS.  (if  asked)  should  not  be  given 
to  foreigners  because  the  library  itself  would  provide  such  an 
edition. 

„e   il    Virgilio     e     i     due     Taciti     saranno     dopo 

VEschilo,  pubblicati  sotto  la  mia  direzione,  per  cura 
della  Laurenziana,  ^)  la  quale  non  intende  concedere  ad 
estranei   la   riproduzione   dei   propri   codici." 

A  fuller  explanation  of  this  was  given  in  an  article  ,,Le  repro- 
duzioni  dei  codici  e  il  Dott.  du  Rieu",  which  the  same  librarian 
wrote  for  his  ,,Rivista  delle  Biblioteche  e  degli  Archivi,  VI  p.p. 
188 — 190."  In  this  he  stated  all  sorts  of  objections  against  Dr. 
du  Rieu's  plans  and  said: 

,Si    tratta    di    codici,    per   diria    con   frase   da    al- 

bergatori,     non     touristes;     o    perch^    se    non    debbono 


*)  Already  Dr.  Hartwig  said  in  his  first  plan  of  1893  (see  page  6):  ,If  a  manuscript 
could  not  be  published  completely  in  any  one  year,  it  should  be  distributed  over 
several  years." 


')  The  reproduction  of  the  Virgil  .per  cura  della  Laurenziana"  thus  announced 
in  May  1896  has  not  yet  appeared.  In  190a  appeared  the  ,due  Taciti"  in  pho- 
totype, as  vol.  VII,  I -II  of  the  .Codices"  (Leiden,  A.  W.  S^thoff). 


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viaggiare  i  codici,  non  debbono  invece  miioversi.e  viag- 
giare  per  istudiarli  quelli  che  li  ricercano?  Facciasi  pure, 
irattandosi    di    codici    non    touristes,    una    questione    da 
albergatori.    La    gente    che   viene   e   studia   in    una    citt^, 
le  reca    qualche  vantaggio  con  la  sua  permanenza,   e  la 
compensa  in  certo  modo  dell'  ospitalitk  concedutale   e  delle 
larghezze   offerte   agli   studi.   Ora,   se  i   manoscritti   per  i 
qual   la  gente  dotta  compie  tali  pellegrinaggi,  si  riproduces- 
sero  tutti,   verrebbe  a  poco  a  poco  a  diminuire  e  a  ces- 
sare  cotesta  affluenza  di  visitatori  studiosi,  e  la  cittk  ne 
^  avrebbe   col    tempo   un   notevole   danno.    Perci6   h  giusto 
ch  .  se  le  riproduzioni  debbon  farsi  in  pro  degli  studi  e 
dei  dotti  lontani  che  non  voglion  muoversi  da  casa  loro, 
h   giusto,  conchiudiamo,  si  facciano  tali  riproduzioni  dagl' 
istituti  cui  i  codici  appartengono,  per  modo  che  essi  istituti 
possano  ricavare  qualche  utile  da  questa  quasi  alienazione 
o  prestazione  de'  pi^  preziosi  tesori,  onde  essi  erano  frequen- 

tati  e  ricercati  dai  visitatori  stranieri'* 

„Noi  salutiamo  con  gioia  questo  risveglio  degli  studi 
pi^i'  severi  e  pi^  nobili ;  ma  quanto  al  concedere  la  riprodu- 
zione  de'  nostri  cimeli  facciamo  le  piil  doverose  riserve" .... 

These  opinions  and  declarations  of  the  director  of  one  of 
the  richest  depots  of  manuscripts  of  Italy  were  not  encouraging 
for  the  young  enterprise  of  the  Codices.  But  the  hope  of  success 
in  Italy  was  not  given  up,  and  later  it  fortunately  appeared  that  two 
of  the  principal  libraries  —  the  Ambrosiana  and  Vaticana  —  were 
more  liberal  and  were  ready  to  help  and  co-operate  and  also  did 
really  help  very  much.  However  the  opinion  of  the  Laurentian 
director  seemed  to  have  a  great  influence  on  the  other  Italian 

libraries. 

In  the  end,  after  much  trouble  and  personal  visits,  the  two 
Tacitus  MSS.  at  Florence,  the  Venetian  Homer  and  the  Aristo^ 
phanes  of  Ravenna  were  photographed,  and  the  permission  for 
the  reproduction  of  the  first  three  manuscripts  was  officially  given, 
and  in  a  very  friendly  manner,  by  thet  Italian  Minister  for  public 
instruction,    His    Excel.    Dr.    BacceUi. 


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But  when  the  work  was  going  to|  be  done,  and  it  appeared 
necessary  not  only  toi  have  and  to  keep  the  photographic  copies, 
but  also  the  glass  negatives,  the  directions  whom  this  concerned 
put  forward  such  difficult  conditions,  that  it  seemed  as  if  the 
whole  enterprise  were  going  to  fail^  and  only  the  firm  intention  of 
causing  these  manuscripts  to  appear  made  it  possible  to  publish 
the  reproductions  in  spite  of  the  conditions.  These  conditions, 
however,  made  the  enterprise  very  difficult,  and  made  the  prices 
much  higher  than  was  planned  in  the  beginning;  for  example, 
besides  the  sixteen  presentation  copies  of  the  Tacitus  reproduc- 
tions themselves,  three  complete  sets  of  all  the  six  parts,  which 
had  appeared  before,  had  to  be  given  gratis  to  the  Laurentian 
Library  at  Florence. 

As  the  permission  to  reproduce  MSS.  was  not  always  easy  to 
get,  it  was  often  necessary  to  make  more  or  less  considerable 
sacrifices,  which,  owing  to  the  limited  number  of  subscribers,  made 
the  prices  higher.  This  fact  seems  to  be  overlooked  by  some  who 
complain  of  the  high  price  of  a  publication.  If  they  assert  that 
the  prices*  could  b^  much  lower,  they  moreover  base  this 
assertion  on  information  given  them  by  phototypists,  which 
is  not  always  correct.  In  calculating  their  prices  those  pho- 
totypists generally  start  from  the  assumption  that  they  can 
keep  the  object  to  be  reproduced  for  a  long  time  in  their  own 
studio,  and  that  they  can  do  the  photographing  there,  together 
with  their  other  work.  This,  however,  is  almost  always  impos- 
sible in  the  case  of  these  MSS.  They  are  on  no  account  allowed 
to  leave  the  place  where  they  are  preserved.  Generally,  expensive 
journeys  or  installations  are  necessary  for  making  the  photo- 
graphs, or,  in  some  cases,  the  Directors  of  the  libraries  appoint 
one  photographer,  who  is  well-known  to  them,  and  who  is  the 
onljy  one  allowed  to  do  the  work.  He  can  ask  a  higher  price 
for  his  work  than  would  have  to  be  paid  if  there  were  free 
competition,  or  if  there  were  a  contract  for  work  during  many 

years. 

If  all  these  circumstances  are  taken  into  account,  it  will  be 
seen  that  it  was  not  possible  to  charge  smaller  prices  than  at 
present;    at    least,    if    we    are    to    work    independently,    without 


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direct  or  indirect  assistance  from  Governments,  scholars'  socie- 
ties, or  other  sources.  The  endeavour  of  the  publisher  of 
the  Codices  will  always  be  to  produce  as  much  as  possible  at 
the  lowest  price,  without  subsidy,  and  he  believes  that  his  chan- 
ces of  success  will  be  ever  improying  according  as  he  can 
show,  by  the  work  that  has  already  appeared,  what  he  wishes 
to  do,  and  also  what  he  is  able  to  produce,  and  according  as 
his  relations  with  the  different  libraries  and  the  excellent  art- 
studios   are    getting    mojre    extensive. 

Whether  it  may  yet  become  possible,  according  to  the  origi- 
nal plans  ot  Messrs.  Hartwig  and  du  Rieu,  to  sell  such  repro- 
ductions for  a  much  lower  price  to  libraries,  as  paying  members 
of  a  Society,  is  to  be  doubted.  Only  a  short  time  ago  this  matter 
was  thoroughly  discussed  at  a  „Congr^s  international  pour  la: 
reproduction  des  manuscrits,  des  monnaies  et  des  sceaux,"  held 
at  Li^ge  in  August  1905.  The  plan  of  forming  such  a  Society 
was  discussed  there,  and  this  was  owing  to  the  observations, 
published  before,  of  an  American  scholar,  Mr.  Ch.  Mills  Gayley, 
who   wrote   among   other   things:  ^) 

„One  of  the  most  important  drawbacks  to  scholarship 
in  America  is  a  lack  of  the  original  manuscripts  and 
the  unique  folios  and  quartos  necessary  to  historical, 
literary,  and  scientific  research.  These  are  jealously  guar- 
ded in  the  libraries  of  the  Old  World,  and  cannot  be 
removed  from  them  for  love  or  money;  consequently  our 
professors,  students,  and  scholars  of  all  kinds  find  it  neces- 
sary to  travel  thousands  of  miles,  and  to  spend  thousands 
of  dollars,  for  the  purpose  of  consulting  priceless 
manuscripts  or  early  printed  books. 

The  consideration  of  this  fact  led  me  some  eight  years 
ago  to  inquire  at  the  British  Museum,  and  the  Bodleian 
Library,  Oxford,  whether  permission  might  be  granted 
to  an  American  institution  to  reproduce  by  photography 
facsimiles  of  their  unique  literary  materials" 


-i 


,not  only  American,  but  also  foreign  investi- 
gators and  institutions  of  learning  would  henceforth  be 
able  to  obtain  (at  a  reasonable  price)  duplicates  of  what- 
ever originals  were  in  a  demand  sufficient  to  warrant 
their  reproduction.  Such  systematic  reproduction  of  uni- 
que manuscripts  and  rare  printed  works  would  materially 
benefit  the  civilization  of  the  future,  both  because  it  would 
disseminate  what  is  now  confined  in  one  or  two  centres 
of  learning,  and  because  it  would  obviate,  through  this 
multiplication  of  copies,  ,the  possible  loss  of  scientific  and 
literary  material  by  the  destruction  in  part  or  whole  (as 
formerly  at  Alexandria,  or  recently  at  Turin  and  the 
Vatican)  of  any  one  of  the  famous  Old  World  libraries. 
The  possession  of  one  or  more  facsimiles  would  also 
enable  the  library  possessing  the  original  to  preserve  it 
from   wear  and   tear** 

But  it  seems  that  the  great  difficulties  connected  with  such 
an  enterprise,  and  the  reasons  why  the  first  plans  of  Mr.  Hartwig 
and  Mr.  du  Rieu  miscarried,,  were  not  sufficiently  known  to  Mr. 
Gayley.  At  least,  he  did  not  speak  of  them.  His  plans  were 
discussed  at  the  Li^ge  Congress,  but  this  did  not  lead  to  any 
result  worth  mentioning,  in  spite  of  the  written  recommendation 
which  was  given  by  a  scholar  of  great  name  and  authority,  Mr. 
Sal.  Reinach  of  Paris. 

He  ^}  complained  very  much  about  the  high  prices  which  some 
publishers  ask  for  reproductions  and  demanded  that  the  different 
librarians  should  co-operate  to  attain  the  result  that  no  publication 
should  cost  more  than  2  francs  per  leaf  („feuillet").  For  such 
a  price  many  an  ,,avide  6diteur"  would,  certainly  be  willing  to 
work  without  finantial  or  other  support.  At  Leyden,  at  least,  the 
work  is  done  much  cheaper.  The  eleven  parts  of  the  Codices 
which  have  now  appeared  in  the  Leyden  enterprise  consist  of 
2598  folios  and  cost  altogether  not  more  than  3569.50  francs; 
namely : 


i)  See  Actes  of  the  Congrfes,  Bruxeiles,  Misch  &  Thron,   1905,  P-   a«>6 


')  Cf.  Actes  du  Congrfes  etc.  p.  56. 


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Numter  of  folios: 

Price  in  francs; 

153 

200 

197 

250 

421 

500 

238 

281.50 

321 

387.50 

242 

375 

149 

250 

194 

281.50 

490 

762.50 

193 

281.50 

2598 

3569.50 

Tom.  I 

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n    m-iv 

V 

VI 

VII  1 

VIII 

IX 

X 

XI 


Total: 

Instead  of  two  francs  each  folio  of  these  codices  costs  only 
about  1. 371/2  francs. 

The  parts  have  all  been  supplied  at  the  given  price  in  twelve 
costly  half-morocco  bindings,  and  in  the  price  are  also  included 
the  detailed  introductions  in  which  scholars  of  great  reputation 
have  communicated   the   results  of  their  researches. 

It  thus  appears  that,  also  as  regards  the  price,  this  Leyden 
enterprise  can  answer  all  reasonable  demands.  If  this  be  gene- 
rally recognized,  and  if  many  may  be  found  wilUng  to  support  it 
and  to  make  its  continuation  possible  by  subscribing  to  a  Series 
of  twelve  ,, Codices",  or  at  least  by  buying  some  of  the  parts 
appeared,  much  may  still  be  done  in  this  respect. 

It  will  be  a  great  satisfaction  to  the  publisher  to  be  able  to 
continue  his  enterprise,  and  to  be  thus  working  in  the  interests 
of  science. 


LEIDEN,  1908, 


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A.  W.  SIJTHOFFs  UITG.-M".  -  LEIDEN. 


Codices  Graeci  et  Latini 


photographiee  depieti 


DUCE 


SCATONE  DE  YRIES 

BIBLIOTHECAE  UNIVERSITATIS  LEIDENSIS  PRAEFECTO. 
P.    P. 


V, 


ielfachen    WUnschen    aus   den   Kreisen    palaeographischer  Lehrer  entsprechend,  habe 
ich  mich  entschlossen,  aus  den  bis  heute  erschienenen  feanden  der 

Codices  Graeci  e|t  Latini 

eine   Sammlung   wichtiger   Tafeln   zusammenstellen    und   binnen   Kurzero   erscheinen  zu  lassen, 
unter  dem  Titel: 

Album  Palaeographicum. 

Der  Herausgeber  der  Codices  Graeci  et  Latini,  Heir  Dr.  S.  G.  de  Vries  war  so 
freundlich,  die  Auswahl  der  Tateln  zu  Qbernehmen  und  aus  den  verschiedenen  rOhmlichst 
bekannten  Einleitungen  das  Wichtigste  hierauf  bezligliche  zusammenzustellen. 

Im  Nachfolgenden  gebe  ich  den  Inhalt  des  Buches  kurz  an: 


Aus  Codex  Vetu§  Testamentum  Graece  Sarravi- 
anus  Oolbertinu§, 

Taf.  31,  111,  198,  212. 

„    Codex  Bernensis  363, 

Taf.  50,  340,  372,  373. 

„    Codex  Plato  Oxoniensis  Clarkianus  39, 

Fol.  58  r,  105  v,  107  r,  418  v. 

„    Codex  Plautus  Heidelbergensis  1613, 

Fol.  73  r,  123  v,  142  v,  220  v. 

„    Codex  Homeri  Ilias  Venetus  A,  454, 

Fol.  6  V,  24  r,  100  v,  101  r. 

yt    Codex  Tacitu§  Laurentianus  Mediceus  681. 
68 II, 

I.  Fol.  3r,  31  V,  98  r,  128  r. 
II.  FoJ.  9v,  15  r,  52  r,    75  r. 


Aus  Codex  Terentius  Ambrosianus  H  75  inf. 

Fol.  3  V,  22  V,  36  V,  76  r. 
„    Codex  Aristophanis  Ravennas, 

Fol.^r,  128  r,  131  r,  131  v. 

„    Codex  Dio§curides  Aniciae  lulianae  Yindo- 
bonensis,  Fol.  70  r,  96  v,  97  r,  392  r. 

„    Codex  Livius  Yiiidobonen§i§  Lat.  15, 

Fol.  4r,  9v,  80r,  102  r. 
„    Codex  Lucretius  Yossianuj^  Oblongus, 

Foi.  11  V,  12r,  15r,  37 r. 
„    Codex  Toletanus  (nunc  Matritensi§)  15,  8, 

Fol.  88. 
Supplementum     I,  Taf.  26. 

II,     „    25. 

III.  . 

IV,  „ 
V,     „ 


n 

n 


Aus  diesen  Angaben  wird  jedem  der  den  palaeographischen  Studien  obliegt,  die  grosse 
Wichtigkeit  der  gebotenen  Studienmittel,  wodurch  einem  wirklichen  BedOrfnisse  entsprochen 
wird,  erklarlich  sein,  und  ich  zweifle  nicht  daran,  das^  sie  sich  deiselben  mit  gutem  Erfolge 
werden  bedienen  wollen. 

Der  Druck  dieser  Ausgabe  ist  soweit  fortgeschritlen,  dass  der  Erscheinung  dieses 

Album  Palaeographicum 

im  November  beshmmt  entgegen  gesehen  werden  kann. 

Die  PapiergrOsse  wird  36  X  54  cM. ;  der  Umfang  an  Tafeln  und  Druckseiten  ±  65  Folio 

Seiten  betragen. 

In  der  zuversichtlichen  Erwartung,  dass  von  diesem  Anerbieten  ein  reger  Gebrauch  gemacht 
und  eine  allgemeine  Einfiihrung  des  Albums  beim  palaeographischen  Unterricht  stattfinden 
wird,  babe  ich  den  Preis  fttr  kartonierte  Exemplare  billigst  auf  Mark  24.—  festgesetzt. 


Ich  bin  noch  so  trei  darauf  hinzuweisen,  dass  durch  die  Herausgabe  dieses  Sammel- 
Godex,  den  Reflectaiiten  auf  die  bis  jetzt  erschienenen  Bande  Gelegenheit  geboten  wird,  sich 
von  der  AusfQhrung  der  allgemein  als  mustergQltig  anerkannten  Reproductionen  der 

Codices  Graeci  et  Latini 

zu  tlberzeugen  und  zur  Anschaffung  samtlicher  oder  einzelner  Bande  zu  entschliessen. 
Ich  sehe  Ihrer  gef.  Bestellung  gerne  entgegen  und  zeichne 

Hochachtungsvoll 

A.  W.  SIJTHOFF's  UlTG.-M". 


I 

: : 

i 
■ ' 


BESTEL^LSCHEIN. 


Der  Unterzeichnete  wOnscht  durch  Vermittlung  der  Buchhandlung 


oder  direct  von  A.  W.  Sijthoff's  Uitg.-Mu.  in  Leiden  zu  empfangen: 

BE  YUIES  Album  Palaeographicimi  kartoniert  24  M. 


Ort  und  Datum: 


^lame: 


LEIDEN.  1908. 


A.  W.  SIJTHOFF's  UITG.-M".  —  LEIDEN. 


Codices  .Graeci  et  Latini 

photographiee  depieti 

DUCE 

SCATONE  DE  VRIES 

BIBLIOTHECAE  UNIVERSITATIS  LEIDENSIS  PRAEFEGTO. 


P.    P. 

The  many  inquiries  concerning  tlie  origin  and  production  of  this  edition  of  the 

ff 

Codices  Graeci  et  Latini 


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show  the  interest  that  has  heen  taken  in  their  pubhcation,  and  therefore  I  think  it  as  well  to 
give  a  short  historical  account  of  this  enterprise.  For  not  only  am  1  sure  that  the  many  facts  and 
opinions  which  are  given  here  will  awaken  the  interest  of  many  specialists  in  this  branch 
of  learning,  but  I  also  think  that  the  difficulties  which  I  had  to  overcome  may  he  appreciated 
when  they  are  known. 

At  the  end  of  the  last  century  the  necessity  of  making  reproductions  of  the  most 
precious  MSS.  which  remain  of  the  Greek  and  Latin  classics  was  at  last  brought  foicibly 
before  us.  f  asked  myself  if  it  would  not  be  possible  for  me  to  render  a  service  to  this  branch 
of  knowledge,  a  task  for  which  I  considered  I  had  no  small  capacity.  The  result  is  shown  in 
this  great  undertaking,  and  all  who  have  watched  the  production  of  this  work  will  testify 
that  a  desire  for  financial  gain  cannot  have  influenced  me  in  any  way  whatever. 

If,  to-day,  1  can  look  back  with  satisfaction  on  the  editions  which  I  have  brought  out, 
and  if  I  can  have  the  pleasure  of  having  gained  the  good-will  and  praise  of  specialist  circles, 
then,  indeed,  I  receive  a  reward  which  compensates  for  much  despair  and  much  worry.  I  see 
too,  the    proof  that  I  am  working  in  the  right  way,  and  1  am  encouraged  to  go  still  farther. 

I  cannot  let  this  occasion  pass  without  saying  that  the  first  attempts  to  produce  these 
M.S.S.  at  the  Congress  at  Chicago  and  some  years  ago  at  Liege,  failed,  and  were  destined 
to  fail,  because  such  an  undertaking  presented  difficulties  which,  at  that  time,  it  was  not 
possible  to  overcome. 


I  had,  in  those  days,  to  be  very  hopeful  of  ultimate  success,  in  undertaking  the  great 
responsibilities  of  such  work,  without  financial  help  from  the  Government  or 
wealthy  learned  Institutions.  To-day  I  am  able  to  state  most  gratefully  that  I  had 
the  pleasure  of  having  the  moral  support  of  many  celebrated  specialists  in  this  branch  of 
learning  and  of  librarians. 

Moreover  I  have  only  been  able  to  succeed  in  my  task,  thanks  to  the  help  of  the  real 
superintendent  of  my  work,  the  Director  of  the  Leyden  University  Library,  Dr.  S.  G.  de  Vries, 
On  the  occasions  when  my  resolution  and  strength  were  about  to  fail,  I  had  to  thank  his 
confidence  in  urging  me  to  believe  in  ultimate  triumph  over  obstacles;  and,  thanks  to  him, 
I  am  now  ready  to  go  farther,  working  according  to  a  method  which  has  been  proved  to  be 
good,  and  giving  my  energy  to  this  fine  enterprise. 

While  I  can  set  forth  so  many  proofs  of  the  favour  and  help  of  so  many  scholars ,  all 
over  the  world,  I  will  not  omit  to  point  out  that  I  could  not  find  assistance  in  some  cases 
where  I  thought  [  had  reason  to  expect  it. 

If  as  earnestly  as  I  know  how,  I  ask  once  more  the  learned  bodies,  who  in  the  first 
place  receive  the  benefit  of  my  valuable  edition,  to  aid  my  endeavours  and  not  to  shake  my 
confidence,  I  believe  that  I  am  acting  in  the  interest  of  us  both;  in  Ihe  interest  of  classic 
study  as  well  as  of  my  own,  as  the  great  financial  worries,  inseparable  from  such  work,  will 
not  concern  me  alone. 

Therefore  I  appeal  to-day,  not  only  to  academies,  libraries,  scientific  societies,  but  also 
to  the  directors  of  classical  studies  at  the  universities,  who  further  their  own 
interests  by  assisting  the  sale  of  the  complete  series  or  parts  of  it. 

Finally,  let  readers  of  this  prospectus  be  assured  that  in  the  production  of  this  Edition 
of  the  Codices,  I  have  had  two  ideals  before  me;  the  preservation  of  priceless  M.S.S.  for  the 
benefit  of  students  all  the  World  over,  aSd  for  myself,  as  publisher,  the  determination  to 
do  even  better  work  in  time  to  come. 

I  have  made  arrangements  so  that  all  booksellers  may  send  you  specimens  of  the 
volumes  which  have  hitherto  appeared.  Where  these  cannot  be  obtained,  I  will  gladly  forward 
all  information. 

With  this  I  send  you  a  price-list  of  such  of  the  Codices  as  have  already  appeared,  and 
any  orders  will  be  promptly  executed. 

Yours  respectfully, 

A.  W.  SIJTHOFF's  UITGEVERS-MAATSCHAPPIJ. 


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LIST  OF  WORKS  AND  PRICES. 

VETUS    TESTAMENTTJM    GRAECE.   Codex   Sarravianus-Colbertlnus 

Saec.  V,  bound  M.   i6o,  fr.  2CX),  £8.—,  ^40.  796.— . 

Codex  BemensiB  363,  bound  M.  200,  fr.  250   £  10,  ^48,  /120.— . 

PLATO.  Codex  Oxoniensis  Clarlaanus  39,  bound  Part  I -II.  M.  200,  fr.  250, 
£10,  ^48,  / 120.—    each  vol. 

PliAUTUS.  Codex  Heldelbergensisl613PalatinusC,  bound  M.  225,  fr.  281.50, 

£11.5.0,  ^  54,  /135.— • 


L  Codex  Venetus  A,  Marciauus  454,  bound  M.  310,  fr.  387.50, 
JB  1 5.10.0,  ^  74.50,  /186.— . 


TACITUS.  Codex  Laureutianus  Medicens  681  et..68II,  bound,  together 
M.   300,  fr.   375,  £15,   ^72,  /180.— . 

TERENTIUS.  Codex  Ambrosianus  H  73  inf..  bound  M.  200,  fr.  250,  £  10.—, 

^  4^,  J  120.—  . 

ARISTOPHANIS    Codex   Raveniias,  bound  M.  225,  fr.  281.50,  £  1 1.5.0,  ^  54, 
/135.— • 

DIOSCUillDES.    Codex    Aniciae    lulianae   Vindobonensis   Med.  Gr.    I., 

bound  in   2   volumes   M.  610,  fr.  1762.50,  £  30.  lO.o,  ^    146.40,  f  $66. — .  / 

LIVITJS.  Codex   Vindobonensis   Iiat    15.,   bound  M.  225,  fr.  281.50,  £  1 1.5.0, 
^  54,  f  ^SS'--  i  ^ 

LUCRETIUS.    Codex    Vossianus    Oblongus.    Praefatus   est   Aem.   Chatelain, 

bound  A[.  225,  fr.  281.50,  £  11.3.0,  ^  54,  /"US-  — • 


i. 


Sup  piemen  turn    I.    Hieronymi    Chronicorum    Codicis   rioriacensis    unciaUs 

fragmenta.  Praefatus  est  L.  Traube.  M.  22,  fr.  27.50,  £  1.2.0,    #  5-25,  / 13-20. 

Supplementum  II.  Les  Miniatures  dn  Psantier  de  Saint  Louis.  Manuscrit 
de  Leyde.  Preface  de  M.  H.  Omont.  M.    16,  fr.  20,  JB  0.16.0,  ^  3-75, /9.6o. 

Supplementum    III.  Der  lUustrierte  Lateinische  Aesop  in  der  Handschrift 

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